Month: February 2019

Haiku for You – February 13 – Waiting for the Click

My transformation,
each morning, coffee, waiting …
that click in my head

BIG DADDY: Did you say click?
BRICK: Yes, click.
BIG DADDY: What click?
BRICK: A click that I get in my head that makes me peaceful.
BIG DADDY: I sure in hell don’t know what you’re talking about, but it disturbs me.
BRICK: It’s just a mechanical thing.
BIG DADDY: What is a mechanical thing?
BRICK: This click that I get in my head that makes me peaceful. I got to drink till I get it. It’s just a mechanical thing, something like a — like a — like a —
BIG DADDY: Like a–
BRICK: Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — all of a sudden there’s — peace!

from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Haiku for You – February 12 – Mister Lincoln

Dear Mister Lincoln,

Yes, today we know your name!

We wish you were here!

On Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, I try to respond to the poem, Nancy Hanks by Rosemary Benét (wife of Stephen Vincent Benét).

If Nancy Hanks
Came back as a ghost,
Seeking news
Of what she loved most,
She’d ask first
“Where’s my son?
What’s happened to Abe?
What’s he done?”

“You wouldn’t know
About my son?
Did he grow tall?
Did he have fun?
Did he learn to read?
Did he get to town?
Do you know his name?
Did he get on?”

Maybe a more appropriate haiku would have been,

Dear Nancy Lincoln,
Today, yes, we know his name.
We wish he was here!

mjh

Haiku For You – February 11 – Spaghetti Junction

Spaghetti Junction

Even the dark path to Hell,

Has a lane here

Tom Moreland Interchange, colloquially known as Spaghetti Junction, is the intersection of Interstate 85 and Interstate 285, along with several access roads, in northern DeKalb County, Georgia, just northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is named for Tom Moreland, a former commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation from 1975 to 1987.

I-85 is a major traffic corridor from the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta in the Gwinnett County area into downtown Atlanta. I-285 is a beltway around Atlanta. In the northern I-285 corridor, in the area from I-85 counterclockwise to I-75, there has been a large amount of development of office space. Spaghetti Junction was designed to remove choke points and reduce congestion in the I-85 and I-285 interchange, which had been a cloverleaf. from Wikipedia