haiku places stumbled across: Mushimegane magazine; Children's Haiku Garden; a new-to-me essay here; and a news article in the San Francisco Chronicle; a website with an archive of 6,000 + Issa poems; found this quote at tinywords: “I believe that it is crucial for haiku to tell about the truth as if it were false.” -Yatsuka Ishihara; a quote from gary gach: "if poetry puts a magnifying glass to language, haiku puts poetics under a microscope."; and please forgive me, but this is too funny, Honku; and look! I found Paul's name in a Boston Globe news article;

wabi-sabi found: "perfection is a gooey chew toy on a worn out old blanket" . . . "Wabi Sabi art comes in many forms, such as a pile of crumpled paper." . . . "It is the cracks in the bark of trees that lets us know it is a mature and healthy tree" . . . all around, no flowers in bloom / nor maple leaves in glare, / a solitary fisherman's hut alone / on the twilight shore / of this autumn eve (Rikyu) . . . and look, you can even buy a wabi-sabi bumper sticker . . .