f/k/a archives . . . real opinions & real haiku

The Major League Baseball 2006 season opened yesterday (April 3),

as many readers surely know.  No matter how enthusiastic or indiffer-

ent you (or we) may be about MLB, we hope you’ll agree that f/k/a‘s

Baseball Haiku Page still inspires and delights both young and old.

G.W.Bush

Charles Dharapak/AP

The Detroit Tigers, Ed Markowski‘s homeboys, won their opener,

but the lifelong fan in Ed is not yet ordering World Series Tickets.

Like last year, Ed continues to be inspired by baseball, when he

switches to his haijin hat.

                      snowflakes tumble & curve

                            the baseball season

                                      begins

                                       today

“snowflakeSN”

                         “snowflakeSN”

      April snow

         the home team falls

             7 games back

April chill

the hitter blows

on his batting glove

ed markowski

“InfielderF”  You’ll find about 20 ed markowski baseball poems

on the Baseball Haiku page.   Here are a few samples from

three other Honored Guest Poets:

warm beer–

heat lightning flickers

beyond the outfield

       frogpond (2004)

nearly dark–

snow deepens

on the baseball field

      

  Billie Wilson – “nearly dark” – Acorn 15 (2005)

sting

of the old man’s

fastball

my so-called friends
send in my sister
to pinch-hit for me

          

 John Stevenson   – “extra innings” – Quiet Enough

two outs in the ninth–
the reliever bangs the ball
against his cup

behind barbed wire
the banter of baseball
in two languages

jim kacian

“potluck”

  You may recall that Joel Schoenmeyer of Death & Taxes and

I had a debate last month on making probate court more user-friendly

for pro so litigants.  See probate and pro se: whose court is it?  On

a related front, the legal reform group HALT announced yesterday, in

its April 3, 2006 e-Journal that the Consumer Federation of America

has endorsed the following proposal:

Enhancements to Probate Web Sites
CFA urges states to improve the content and user-

friendliness of their probate court Web sites. Consumers

should be able to go online and easily find plain-language

information and forms for settling a small estate.

[thanks to Prof. Gerry Beyer of the WT&EProfBlog for

linking to this post and covering the topic of probate websites.]

“spiltwine”  You might want to ponder, along with Tom Wark of the

Fermentation Daily Wine Blog, “Why Are Drinkers Smarter?” (tip

from A Fool in the Forest and his Blawg Review 51 Prequel)  Plus,

see Tom’s blurb — Divorce and Wine — pointing to Jeff Lalloway‘s

California family law weblog and its discussion of taxes, wine & divorce.

this body of mine

part temple

part tavern

        the old priest dines

                his wine

                just wine

David G. Lanoue 

“this body” – Dewdrop World (2005)

“old priest ” – the thin curve:; Modern Haiku XXX: 1

  Some poor soul Googled how to get out of the legal profession> 

yesterday (and again today).  Out of 152 million results, the first two

are from us.  You could do a lot worse than reading them this

gray (and even snowy) afternoon, if you need inspiration or better

priorities:

Law As Daily Passion, Not Default Profession (quotes from New

Jersey Appellate Judge Jose L. Fuentes)  and

is Canada’s legal profession different? (probably not)

                                                                                                        “snowflakeSN”