In this essay, Megan Arkenberg discusses how several literary devices, such as personification and metaphor, often said to be eschewed in haiku for the sake of objectivity are in fact often essential elements in poems' success.
Bukusai Ashagawa (aka Byron Dudley) here presents the 5th edition of JIKU, containing his haiku, senryu and tanka together with his photographs and his far ranging meditations and speculations about the nature of 'ehi' (English haiku idioms).