re:Virals 560
Alan Summers—everything depends on that comma: commentaries on "a second ambulance / passes, silently / in the rain" by Alan Yan
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).
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
Uma Padmanabhan - loosening the strings: commentaries on " puppet theater/someone calls me by/my childhood nickname" by Cezar Ciobica
Jonathan Epstein — listen to the grace notes: comments on "memorial bench. . . / she shares her chit-chat / with the pigeons" by Annie Wilson
David Cox—the genie is out of the bottle:enlightenment! Commentaries on "speechless this evening I'm a lamp" by Ella Aboutboul
Yibo Xu—the reader's own awareness: commentaries on "kuma in a coma in a cave" by Roberta Beach Jacobson
Orense Nicod—poetry as witness: commentaries on "TWIN CITIES / NO(T)ICE" by Petra Schmidt
Supplementary essay by Orense Nicod based on this week's verse: "Show me the sutra / In which the Buddha praises / The colors of beer." by Barry Foy