19th, 20th and 21st days of Alan Summers as featured poet at Cornell University USA

Cornell University, Mann Library  

http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/alam-summers/

 

zombie debt–
the practised slice
of a bread knife


Alan Summers

Publications credits:
Haiku News (Vol. 1 No. 41 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

 

zombie debt: http://consumerist.com/2013/02/19/debt-collectors-keep-calling-about-bogus-debt-even-after-being-threatened-with-suit/



train whistle
a blackbird hops
along its notes

Alan Summers

Publications credits:
Presence #47 (2012): The Haiku Foundation Per Diem: The Elements (September 2012)

 

theevandiude choolam
oru karutha pakshi thulli
athin swarangalil
 
Malayalam translation by Narayanan Raghunathan
 
neruppu vantiyin choolam
oru karuppu paravai thulliyatu
antha svarangalil
 
Tamizh translation by Narayanan Raghunathan
 
train seeti
ek kale rang ki chidiya naachti
vah svar lahiri me
 
Hindi translation by Narayanan Raghunathan




rain on the river the jesus star shifting

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Janice M Bostok Haiku Prize 2012 Anthology Evening Breeze

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Alan Summers haiku featured at The Haiku Foundation Per Diem: Daily Haiku on the subject of childhood

sunlit sweat

the young vagrant

sucks a thumb

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Haiku Harvest  vol. 4 no. 1 (2003); Haiku Harvest: 2000 – 2006 (Modern English Tanka Press 2007); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

Per Diem: Daily Haiku

The Haiku Foundation

December (31 poems): Children
How children move, exasperate and inspire us to look at life, our surroundings and ourselves. Editor: Sonam Chhoki