Happy International Haiku Day
Melting snow showers
Crocus pops near tulip spears
A spring fever breaks
Half of this haiku’s meaning is clear in the writer’s mind. The other half may mean something else. On International Haiku Day, that could make the haiku mean anything and everything the world needs now.
“Meaning lies as much in the mind of he reader as in the haiku.” – Douglas R. Hofstadter
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GODSLAUGH.ME 
Spring here seems to be playing Mother May I and being sent back to winter every few days.
I was glad to see Hofstadter’s name here. Isn’t he a fabulous author? I refer back to Metamagical Themis every now and again because the book was such a rich influence for me. It must have been well over 40 years ago when I first read it.
A beautiful mind is Hofstadter’s. I’ve read his Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. It took this slow reader all of Year 2K to get through it. But now that AI understands what he said about it before it existed, I might read it again, maybe pick up some of what I missed. But only after reading Metamagical Themes for the first time. Thank you for that referemce, LuAnne, and everything you write.
Here today, very Marchy winds blasted very Mayish air though our little acre of Nature.
P.S. That Hofstadter quote is itself a haiku in “American Sentence” form (said to have been invented by Allen Ginsberg; which I learned on the blog of a poetic soul: the David with whom you agree about “postcards”; maybe poetic souls think alike?).
Btw, here and now, the morning after International Haiku Day’s balmy high-velocity breeze, it is snowing. 🙂
Happy IH Day!
TY, G!