other people's work
Hugh Energy, Deep Mystery
How Mr. Schrodinger had a cat
and the cat was both dead & alive;
and when we asked the physicist
what sort of juju was this
they said to be patient
that they were
still trying to figure it out
later when the great Einstein said
that God does not play dice with the world
his fellow physicists said to him:
Albert, you wait; you never know
what bag of tricks the Old One
has up his sleeves
by Ifeanyi Menkiti
(from the book Before a Common Soil)
Three Haiku by Issa
it's rainin,
the wean's in
dancin aboot wi
the kitten
disnae matter
how ye look at it -
ma heid's cauld
jist this,
jist this;
still...
by Alan Spence
after the English translations of R. H. Blyth
(from the book Atoms of Delight: an anthology of Scottish haiku and short poems)