A guide to writing haiku--a Japanese form of poetry--in English, explaining what a Japanese haiku is, what an English haiku is or should be, and what English-speaking poets need to do to write, or teach, haiku in English.
Tells about the travels of seventeenth-century Japanese poet, Basho, and features selections of his haiku poems, and examples of the characters of the Japanese language.
A Scottish grandmother explains the legend behind an old superstition to her grandson: Always crumble your eggshells, else the seawitches will get them and turn them into boats, from which they will cause storms and shipwrecks on the oceans.
