January 6, 2019

Happy Haiga Day!


© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Print courtesy The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Text:

Sixteen Varieties of Gooseberry
by George Brookshaw, 1812

It's only been a decade since
I bought my first avocado.

I still find it hard to imagine
how it once hung on a tree.

Never seen one gooseberry--not
even at the super-supermarket.

Mr. Brookshaw where did
you manage to find sixteen?

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