The following rengay was composed by Michael Dylan Welch, Tanya McDonald, and Billie Dee on 10/18/2009 in Seabeck, Washington after the annual Seabeck Haiku Getaway Weekend Retreat. The three of us took an afternoon drive through the forest north of the conference grounds to Scenic Beach State Park, followed by supper at Barbie's Seabeck Bay Cafe. We edited the poem during our ferry ride back to Seattle. A wonderful day we are celebrating again with our Third-Place winning in the 2010 Haiku Poets of Northern California rengay contest. The poem will be published in HPNC's journal Mariposa, 2011.
Swapping Shells
Michael Dylan Welch, Billie Dee, and Tanya McDonald
shell gathering—
our toes sinking
down to the wet Michael
abandoned camper shell
columbine in the shadows Billie
sea glass—
she caresses
the shell of his ear Tanya
the idle hooker
reading Shelley Michael
by moonlight
a hermit crab
swapping shells Billie
the band shell darkened
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