re:Virals 566
Sean Murphy—'the lone and level sands:' commentaries on "tide / the castle sinks / into its moat" by Edward Cody Huddleston
re:Virals is an interactive feature which offers commentary on selected haiku each week. The supplier of the best commentary each week gets to choose the next week’s poem. An updated version of Virals, an early interactive feature of THF. co-hosts: Shawn Blair, Melissa Dennison, Susan Yavaniski, and Keith Evetts (managing editor).
Sean Murphy—'the lone and level sands:' commentaries on "tide / the castle sinks / into its moat" by Edward Cody Huddleston
Peggy Bilbro-it's all interpretation:commentaries on "tidal surge this wave of something unutterable" by Debbie Strange
Jennifer Gurney—the simple things: commentaries on "sunny morning / the smell of coffee among / balcony flowers" by Slobodan Pupovać
Sean Murphy—a problem that can't be punched away: commentaries on "addicted to life— / a superhero beats / intoxication" by Paul Callus
Sudha Devi Nayak—in at the deep end: commentaries on "at the end of the diving board yes" by Mary Stevens
Adel Imhof—geography is memory: commentaries on Shelli Jankowski-Smith's monoku "fading foothills the marriage lost in creeping sepia"
Alan Summers—everything depends on that comma: commentaries on "a second ambulance / passes, silently / in the rain" by Alan Yan
Isabella Mori—they are connected: commentaries on "empty crab shell— / the tide / through it" by Jacek Margolak
Urszula Marciniak-life hinges on a single moment- "gulp! /our resident bullfrog/ swallows a swallow "— by Henry W. Kreuter
Shannon Blood — coming home to self: commentaries on "deep moss / sinking into/ the slow spaces" by Isabella Mori
Sébastien Revon — an impossible intimacy: commentaries on "desert rose / the impossibility / of us both" by Ravi Kiran
Dan Campbell—all lightness: commentaries on "ripples of water / in the brimming birdbath— / spring breeze" by Anne Curran
Sitarama Seshu Maringanti — Beyond Words: commentaries on “touching me / without touching me / sea breeze” by Thomas David
Sudha Devi Nayak — one moment telescoping into another : commentaries on “milk bubbles / from a straw this universe / & that & that” by Joyce Clement
Beata Czeszejko—bringing light out of our inner shadow: commentaries on "dawn chill— / a crow reminds me / to use my wings" by Thomas L. Vaultonburg
Dan Campbell—in quiet harmony: commentaries on "last Valentine's Day— / all the socks in my drawer / mismatched" by Mariola Grabowska
Urszula Marciniak—Over the hill?: commentaries on "now that I'm old and sick/everyone saying /how good I look" by John Brehm
Radhamani Sarma — so much is compressed: commentaries on condo living / grandpa learns to turn / bonsai soil by Archie Carlos
Uma Padmanabhan—collective behaviour observed: commentaries on "dog park / everyone about everybody’s / business" by Michael Henry Lee
David Cox—what we hold dear: commentaries on "scent of summer / filling his gnarled hands / last tomatoes" by Annie Wilson