Here’s a translation of a haiku by one of the great Japanese masters.
Just to say the word
home, that one word alone,
so pleasantly cool
A couple of months ago, Twist and I got to talking about housing and poetry. Twist thought we might someday ask Doomers for their contributions of housing and bubble haiku. Mr. Twist knows Japanese and even has some strong opinions about Robert Hass, an American haiku expert, so who knows, he might have one or two up his sleeve. Anyway, last Monday my poetry class [1] workshopped haiku. Twist had already shown me the gman029 comment that later formed the basis for her Tuesday post What’s Behind the Subprime Meltdown?, so I was startled when one of the haiku presented by Ken, a fellow student, seemed to concentrate gman029’s post and much else in just a few syllables. I got his permission to expose it here, and that’s why I’m posting on haiku and inviting contributions today.
