Raccoon bones
Litter the rocks
Striding through the backyard
Coyote
Snarled tracks in snow
Prowl the sliding door
Flick of a light switch
Scamper of footsteps
Cat
Is MIAow
Urine puddle
The late-night cleanup!
Dog
Is paper wolf
Barking chorus
Racing deer
The eyes, the eyes
The eyes, the eyes
Last clatter
The waning moon
Authors and Madpersons: qbit and frankjtassone
qbit 
Flick of a light switch
Scamper of footsteps
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Cat
Is MIAow!
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urine puddle
the late-night cleanup!
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Dog
Is paper tiger
We have three couplets left, you are the closer!
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Sorry, meant
Dog
US paper wolf
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #7: A free-style renku with qbit!
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barking chorus
racing deer
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The eyes, the eyes
The eyes, the eyes
All you now!
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last clatter
the waning moon
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Great!! Give me a sec and I’ll get it all posted. Thanks for doing this together!
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My pleasure! Thank you for the opportunity!
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OK, all done and posted. The last line was perfect. Brings all the canidid madness to a beautiful, subtle close.
Quick question — I am pretty much just winging it here, and I got what little I know from reading a lot of Jane Reichhold. She was of the opinion that “Renga’ was still the best term for this collaborative style, and seemed a bit passionate rejecting “Renku”. I read a bit more and it seems that there are other folks in the “you can’t call this Renga, so let’s call it Renku” camp. You labeled it Renku in your reblog, and know a million times more about this than me, LOL! You view on all this? Did I stick my foot in it labelling this Renga?
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I’ll be honest: when I first reposted, I thought you wrote renku. When I checked again, I saw that you wrote renga, so I revised.
Renku is a modern version of renga. I don’t know of any controversy over the use of either term. What we wrote would likely be called renku rather than renga, since we used couplets rather than alternating haiku and couplets. I don’t care what we call it! It’s amazing no matter it’s name, and it’s fun to write. That’s the point of renga and renku, anyway!
For more information, the Haiku Foundation has this: https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/current-renku/
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So apparently there was a huge beef about it between the Reichholds and Higginson. Agreed, it could not matter less, just sort of interesting.
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Marvelous the work that you two did with this collaborative challenge!!! I was looking at the time stamps and floored by your speed and the fluidness of it all. So glad you joined in, Frank!
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Thank you, Jilly. I’m glad you enjoyed the renga!
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Thanks so much for that link! Wonderful!
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Just now reading this and I am amazed at the flow, the blending of the voices and the marvelous lines. I laughed at MIAow! The eyes lines are spot on and that final couplet is perfection!
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