{"id":662,"date":"2023-03-07T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=662"},"modified":"2023-03-07T13:14:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:14:28","slug":"travel-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Travel Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Havana 1959<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El Presidente\u2019s<br \/>\nreef surrounded by shark nets;<br \/>\nfort with touch-me-nots.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stockholm 1977<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A royal wedding<br \/>\nfollowed by a live sex show<br \/>\nand Millesga\u030arden<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dubna 1978<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sheremetyevo:<br \/>\nArrive late and unannounced.<br \/>\nWait for black Volga.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kona 1979<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Freshly off the plane,<br \/>\nfragrance of plumeria<br \/>\nsmacked me in the nose!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paris 1980<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Me\u0301tro platform:<br \/>\nwhere we all got pepper-sprayed<br \/>\nfor speaking English.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antigua 1980<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A charming island<br \/>\nbeloved of German tourists<br \/>\nstinks of resentment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brugg 1982<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bank doesn\u2019t mind<br \/>\nthe soldier\u2019s rifle, but my<br \/>\nwife can\u2019t sign alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tokyo 1983<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anywhere else, you\u2019d<br \/>\nworry on the last subway<br \/>\nalone at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seibo Byoin Hospital 1983<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A blinking Buddha<br \/>\nmerges with the less wise world,<br \/>\nfresh out of the womb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snake River 1991<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flashes of cutthroat<br \/>\nscatter in invisible<br \/>\nwater under raft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bisbee 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mountain become pit,<br \/>\ncupping bright blue &amp; green pools<br \/>\nto its mined-out heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bokelia 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Snook tattoo on arm,<br \/>\nmy neighbor\u2019s out on parole:<br \/>\nA friendly redneck.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matlacha 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I jumped a tarpon<br \/>\noff the rented dock across<br \/>\nthe street from the bar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New South Wales 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Batehaven: parrots,<br \/>\nmiles of beautiful water,<br \/>\nbut nary a fish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Belize 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gourmet meals from shacks,<br \/>\nhappy folks despite many<br \/>\nreasons to hate us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zermatt 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pink petunias<br \/>\nframe every scenic vista<br \/>\nof the Matterhorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Havana 1959 El Presidente\u2019s reef surrounded by shark nets; fort with touch-me-nots. &nbsp; Stockholm 1977 A royal wedding followed by a live sex show and Millesga\u030arden &nbsp; Dubna 1978 Sheremetyevo: Arrive late and unannounced. Wait for black Volga. &nbsp; Kona 1979 Freshly off the plane, fragrance of plumeria smacked me<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=662\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-haiku","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}