nobody on the street
stray dog stops to bite
its wagging tail
of George Swede (Brooks Books, 2000)
No, I haven’t been chasing my own tail or smoking wacky tabaccy. But,I have been feeling slightly out of control ever since I discovered this weblog’s
Referers Page a couple weeks ago. I keep going back to it and clicking to see
the [purported] sources of page hits or visitors to f/k/a . ., especially, when the
referer URL is a search engine.
Sure, I could chalk this up to playful curiosity, or the haiku-lover’s penchant
for surprise and juxtaposition. But, it feels obsessive — as if it is taking up
far too many of each days scarce minutes.
It’s not as if I’m alone in this practice: [click here for the rest of this story]
smoking a pipe
by lantern light…
spring breeze
translated by David G. Lanoue
