Ginko (吟行) is the haiku poet's walk — the practice of wandering through a place, observing, and letting a poem surface. Bashō built a life around it. Shiki called it sketching from life.
Mine happens twice: once with a camera, and again later, sifting through the photos until a seed of haiku appears.
clos
piercing
cozy
shimmers
lambent
Cramant
Whispy
Tropical sunset
artifice
toy vendor
hometown
Leeward
Loaded
shadowed
Climbing
between
Blue
Colors
Low season
Aside
Michelada
Illumined
Dusk
Haul
Lit
Tipsy
Aftermath
Monologue
Waiting
Cold
Dream
Awaiting
Hiking
Roses
Coffee
Crooked
Tourist
Angry
Window
Loudly
Illusion
Set
Ornamental
Laughing
Quiescence
Couch
Dogma
December
Slowly
Long way
Circles
Prayer
Work
Shadow
Regret
Rickshaw
Fried
Heavy
Bashful
Shoes
Sunbeam
Vidyādharas
Reaching
Lung ta
Veneida
Stone
Paper
Peacetime
Hiding
Voles
Barrels
Vines
Still
Dakshinkali
Limes
Napping
Temple path
Balloons
Bonfire
Feeling
A toast...
Succulents
Mid-morning
Evening
Meddlesome
Napa
Carrot pudding
Cut Bamboo
Sidewalk Ear Cleaner
Delight
School
Walking
Perfected
Happiness
Lookout point
Yoni
Blooming
Moss
At a hillside shrine
Across Dolphin Street
Beach breakfast
Well trod
From the old woman
As we grow old
Turning
The eight-thousanders
A foothill village
The best tour guides...
colorful tassels
Delhi Winter
Rose lassi
Taking my order
Such quiescence!
Paper-machete craft
Solstice afternoon
Something borrowed...
this chilly morning
Surrounded by silks
At the chai wallah
19000 feet
She is the spider
pushing a load
Approaching dusk
the Himalayas
Riotous laughter!
Dead of winter
Stumbling
Parantha wallah
Mountain pilgrimage
Winter afternoon
December morning
This mountain
Anchovy pizza
Now moving the breath
Shadows tiptoeing
the day begins
in the whirr
among the teapots
summer garden
Hanging...
wedding day
story idea
The rickshaw wallah
the dome
Tired of touring
On the ancient bridge
the tufts of stray grass
in this seaside town
finding the moss
fiddleheads
hot summer day
at Dakshinkali
communal oven
saying japam
those two lanchas
at Dakshinkali
at dusk
going
graffiti
me, bull
memory
into the breeze
mongoose
in the bush
the pride
the mosque at dawn
Panch Mahal
DRINK
the flower petals
morning cloudburst
arriving to
a world of trials
his attention
breakfast phở
the devadasi
miniature mountain
bustling Chandni Chowk
billowing smoke
tapas bar wall
lotus flowers
billowing clouds
stack of stones
the sun has risen
joss stick smoke
at the oyster farm
what a strange world
happy smile
in Hue in summer
negra mole
the mariachi
the avocado
how comfortable
Marrakech kitchen
billowing clouds
at the path's end
my mom and her horse
photo with the monks
morning drizzle
dusk
tamales
savana
morning silence
reaching Tiger's Nest
beach sunset
Tôm’s bar
under a predawn sky
buddha next to...
lavender twilight
the road to Agra
Eulogy to my mother-in-law, Olga Withoff
The memory revision machine
the lil' boat vendor
passing quietly
“The eff is tulpas?”
“Funny but you don’t look like the yoga type.”
Change in Plans
having seen so much
life in this world
Folded...
Thimphu steps
wildebeest
Dakshinkali Temple
vultures
the lion roars
the school girls’ laughter
A Bloody Indian
“Freckles,” I whispered...
deep in the mountains
passing Dordemma
a ripple of grass
Northern Migration
morning storm clouds build
tucking in her skirt
cursing the clouds
summer street Hanoi
coming all this way
near the acacia
fanning red charcoal
tired of temples
ancient gate at Hue
the only color
waiting at Kuro
set out before dawn
after morning alms
Mekong drifting...
this hot afternoon
The Mekong Again...
against the blue sky
MS-13
spin class mirror
in afternoon sun
Elon Musk
morning photograph
home-cooked in Hanoi
at Ho Chi Minh's tomb
this rainy morning
this line of saris
Bram Stoker
concert posters stuck
choosing
Bucharest subway
in dry grass
this hot afternoon
Franz Liszt
the setting sun
in that cheetah's eyes
A solitary
With such great focus
Tyler Austin
Alfresco patio
Supercell
The Masters
vet x-ray
Zanzibar Island
in Just-
Happy New Year
6 word fitness
approaching aarti
nestled in couches
The Hero's Journey
Logline (draft)
passing 20k
"It is I..."
Teotihuacan II
Teotihuacan
becoming twilight
500 Words a Day
Emptying out the desk drawer of the mind...
Hanoi street crossing
Gabby
moving houseboat
wet riverbank
brightly on my face
confidential s&r
Tonlé Sap Lake
bespoke
morning pagoda
nice bodhi
Sabe a rana
Pouk District ស្រុកពួក, Cambodia
System failure
the old chinese pair
the roofers' nail guns
after the kill shot
through the parking lot
we've passed three times now
this happy morning
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Milo worship
The medicine of fiction and poetry.
goblet toast
Rooftop monkey
Follow-up haiku, First Reader
Nurse who snapped
First Reader
Veda + anta
Pulque bar mural (erudition)
Pulque bar mural
haiku no. 5
Morning showers
Old memory
Flies
Insult Erdogan
Didn't hear it myself
A Frame Story of 6 Word Stories?
Systems over goals
Another 6 worder
Another form more challenging than it would seem
Sisters of the Valley
Colorado Reflections
Daily Reverance
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The Clerihew
