Saturday, November 1, 2025

A Senryu by Randy Brooks

 

cleaning house
for other-worldly guests
new ofrenda candles

~

Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University, where he teaches courses on haiku, tanka and Zen poetics. Randy and Shirley Brooks are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of Mayfly haiku magazine. His most recent books include Walking the Fence: Selected Tanka and The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku.

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