
to what leaves
American beech
***
American beech (Fagus grandifolia) trees often retain their dead leaves for much of the winter. The ten-dollar word for that is marcescence.
to what leaves
American beech
***
American beech (Fagus grandifolia) trees often retain their dead leaves for much of the winter. The ten-dollar word for that is marcescence.
a vole’s
wandering hill
fresh snow already a vole’s winding hill
fresh snow moving hill full of vole
a crow hunter’s
crow call
With the change in the calendar comes a major change in photohaiku presentation here. After years of resisting the urge to make haiga (or postal poems, as a short-lived journal I used to edit called photos incorporating text), I’ve finally given in, prompted by the discovery that the Snapseed app, which I’ve had on my phone for years, makes it really easy. (In my defense, the text option is hidden near the bottom of the tools menu.) I’ve long been bothered by the unimaginative text-image pairings and poor font choices in a lot of online photo haiga, so this is my chance to try and do a little better (while still failing frequently, I’m sure).
I’ll still split the text between title and post, for accessibility’s sake and to maintain consistency with the archive. I may still post photos without text in them. And I’ll continue to cross-post to Instagram (@neotoma_magister) and auto-post to Twitter (@morningporch), so you can follow me there as well if you’re a masochist.
more than ordinary
stir fry
without peaks
keep going
that emphatic
WHO-all
the shrinking circle of my needs