Foreword

If a Haiku is the written record of the conscious experience of self in situation and of “pure awareness” of the moment, a sketch can be considered as the drawing equivalent.

This piece aims at connecting the drawing to the writing, the first having preceded the second in providing what Allen Ginsberg has described as a “leap of the mind”.

The title of this piece refers to the fact that the third line in a traditional Haiku does seal that leap, role given here to the drawing.

Feature image

The breakfast finished
Its tastes and smells receded
A morning syntagma (*)

For Josée

It was to be our day
We decided to revisit 1959
White ducks at the Fry  

Old Orchard Street

Searching the orchard
Behind the row of trees
Number 2276  

The rock at Pine Point

It was a special visit
With a hint of something ending
Turbulent waters  

Splendor in the grass

In the poem?
No, in the back yard
A spluttering of colors 

Credit

All drawings to Maurice Amiel

Quoted expressions were taken from: Goldberg, N. Three simple lines, New World Ed., Pomona, Calif. 2012

(*) A syntagma, in linguistics, is an “elementary constituent segment of text” according to Wikipedia