...Like Candles In The Wind...: Solo Renhai No. 271

by John Daleiden

a crocus bud
in the melting snow
my footprints vanish

the great Houdini escapes—
oh, where is The Lost Dutchman?

the fossils
of t-rex buried in rock—
the last plumb blossoms 


in Renhai Studio

Archive Id: 271
John Daleiden: USA
Written: April 28, 2011

Theme: Vanishing -- things that disappear
Season: Spring
Kigo: "plumb blossoms": William Higginson: The Haiku Handbook, p. 270.
Verse Form: Free
Process: Forward (2A/2B, 1, 3)

Links 1/2: Foot prints vanish / Houdini escapes & The Lost Dutchman
Links 2/3: Houdini / T-rex; The Lost Dutchman / Fossils
Links 3/1: Plumb blossoms / Crocus bud; Fossils / Foot prints

Notes: The Lost Dutchman is a gold mine near the Supestition Mountains in Arizona that has become lost. This story is the greatest living legend in the American Southwest. See this link: http://www.theoutlaws.com/gold1.htm

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