November 13, 2006

Friends and Companions Renga

The rain slips through our
careful defenses while we
try to hide our skin —

treading this trail into winter,
we are not walking alone

~ Shelley Krause and Cate Kerr

Cate graciously responded to my invitation, and we are both so pleased to be able to start our week with this kind of creative sharing. We've never met, but it scarcely matters; we are still friends and companions.

For extra credit, surf on over here to see a renga I helped birth almost ten years ago (!).

(Thanks as ever to the women of One Deep Breath
for their continuing inspiration, and to Meera Viswanathan,
my teacher from many years ago, who first introduced me to renga.)

8 comments:

susanlavonne said...

your collaboration is truly beautiful...and you two are the first to team up! thanks and congratulations on a stupendeous result

Crafty Green Poet said...

Well done on a true collaboration (I totally cheated!). And you produced something special too - excellent.

Anonymous said...

well done on your collaboration - will you work more together?

i begged off on pairing up this week and went it alone

Anonymous said...

Just saw the othe side of this. Great pairing!

Jodi said...

Great teamwork! Great result!

Anonymous said...

The rain has certainly playes a role these past few days on either coast.
I love the images created in the last two lines. Very nice.

JP (mom) said...

Beautiful collaboration of the supportive nature of friendship.

Andromeda Jazmon said...

Beautiful! As I said to your haiku partner, I love the rain slipping in to skin image. Great collaboration.