Five Haiku

Utterance

          To suck a poemFrom the marrow of the wind          Is bread and freedom

Bob Kaufman on Running Away at Age 13

          Between sea and skyTwenty years rolled into napsacks          Lonely planet

Buddhist Vow

          A decade of wordsChoked at the hands of silence          Breathless solitude

Spoken Word

          The spoken word bloomsFrom the seeds of protest song          The bebop man planted

Improvisation

          ImprovisationIn Northbeach coffeehouses          Bob Kaufman lives!