Neato project

I know there are a variety of views out there about the Value of Writing Groups, but I am lucky enough to be involved with one that puts up with me only managing to make a meeting or two a year. Got to my second of 2009 today, and how's this for a neato project.

Elizabeth Waugh, the sculptor, is 80 this year and as a celebration of her birthday, life and work an installation thingy is being created for the Wigtown Festival called "Words and Bronze".

Here's one of her bronzes, so you're with me so far.

More of her work can be seen at her website, http://www.elizabethwaugh.co.uk/body_index.html

Now, having come about three months late to the project, what's still required are some haikus to be etched onto frosted glass to hang at the windows of the installation space (Tate Modern phrase there). I have never written a haiku, and would never have had the inclination to write one had I not gone to the meeting. But I did, so I have, and there is the Value of Writing Groups to me. They make you step outside a little.

No idea if they're any good, but first a kind of general one.

The elemental
copper and tin here conjured
by her fire to breath.

Then one in response to this bronze, Dreamer

A dreaming woman
who reveals herself only
if we can still dream.

Neither of which I find particularly satisfactory, but early days. However, this linocut, Hare

led to this, which I like.

A hare turns his head
from the death at his hind feet
but still leaves shall fall.