HAY(NA)KU HISTORY

HIS DEFINITION OF “HOPE”

“I
am a
black man named

‘Barack Obama’ and
running for
President.”

--written after Barack Obama won the Caucuses in Iowa, a state where the population is at least 93% white.

This is from my Hay(na)ku Journal which I created because I received so many complimentary calendars for 2008 -- none of which I can use for calendar purposes since my calendar this year is the Dutch Henry WineryDog Calendar wherein Achilles and Gabriela are the January dogs. So I am using one of the spare calendars for either writing or quoting a hay(na)ku per day for the rest of the year that somehow marks something that happened that day.