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| Issue 26: | 1 Jan. 2025 |
| Haibun: | 73 words |
By Bob Lucky
A Note to Sir Richard Burton
I’ve read your translation of the Kama Sutra. It wasn’t quite as boring as the original Sanskrit, which I skimmed to the best of my abilities, meaning I made meaningless sounds in my head until I fell asleep. I need to get my hands on a manga version soon so I can see what all the fuss is about.
another dream
with no happy ending
half-assed moon
Bob Lucky’s
latest book is a collection of haibun, My Wife & Other Adventures (Red Moon Press, 2024). He is also the author of My Thology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019), Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018), and Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014). He lives in Portugal.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Book Review: My Wife & Other Adventures by Rich Youmans in contemporary haibun online (20:3, December 2024)
⚡ Bob Lucky at Haikupedia.org (September 2024)
⚡ A Tribute and Commentary on Bob Lucky’s new collection, My Thology: Not Always True but Always Truth by Ray Rasmussen in cho (15:4, January 2020)
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