Dream of a Full Neighbourhood

Haiga [paintings] are typically painted by haiku poets (haijin), and often accompanied by a haiku poem, according to Wikipedia. With my photos standing in for the paintings, creating photo-haiga is a central part of my daily art practice: I find it both invigorating and meditative, an often odd, but for me, happy combination. I have found that my photo-haiga can bring some readers closer to the poems.

Although a longer poem, "Dream of a full neighborhood" (below) came to me from the photo as many of my photo-haiga do. Sometimes I find the photos to match poems sitting in waiting.