leaking
through the cracked pot—December's
moon
99: December 17th 2020 | bottlecap
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December 14th 2020
unlike
the other pines: a branch here, a branch
there
98: Deember 14th 2020 | bottlecap
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October 10th 2020
little
by little a winter's evening in the crow's
shadow
For this haiku, I also liked:
early
winter—the Milky Way in the crow's
eye
97: October 10th 2020 | bottlecap
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December 7th 2020
early
winter—the tree begins where the shadow
ends
96: December 7th 2020 | bottlecap
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December 2nd 2020
all
day—just enough snow to make a crow
sneeze
95: December 2nd 2020 | bottlecap
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November 30th 2020
rain
from clouds and clouds from rain—almost
winter
94: November 30th 2020 | bottlecap
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Die Erlkönigin | Voiced by Harriet Whitbread
An actress’s reading of Die Erlkönigin is always something I’ve wished for. Then, just over a month ago Harriet Whitbread, the head of Voice & Learning Support at the Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company, emailed to ask if I’d enjoy her own reading of the poem.
I confess that when I read this poem publicly, I sometimes can’t make it to the end. Goethe’s original poem, Erlkönig, was and is profoundly meaningful to me in a way that I could only translate by writing Die Erlkönigin. Ms. Whitbread shared that she also had trouble reading to the end and that is, in a sense, as much as I ask from the poem.
Please enjoy Whitbread’s beautiful performance.
Harriet Whitbread is Head of Voice & Learning Support at the Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company located at the The Monkey House, 97-101 Seven Sisters Road, London, N7 7QP. You can visit the Fourth Monkey website here.
November 26th 2020
winter—
the forest's windows and doors flung
open
93: November 26th 2020 | bottlecap
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November 23rd 2020
snow
and the last of late November's sunlight
falling
92: November 23rd 2020 | bottlecap
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November 19th 2020
late
fall—the moon hangs from a broken
lamppost
91: November 19th 2020 | bottlecap
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