I first came across Peggy's cheese-ku in our haiku-kai in February 2010. I started several small email-based kukai a little over a decade ago. The first one, the one I still participate in occasionally, includes several editors. Peggy was one of the founding members. Peggy and I also wrote renku together back then too, won a few prizes together and shared so many more jokes and smiles. Anyway, I love this haiku. Here’s my response from the haiku-kai, before I knew Peggy was the author: I grinned. I shook my head and said that’s not right. That’s not haiku. Then I felt trapped — it is haiku, wondrously farcical haiku. Sure, there's no kigo, but I can look past it for haiku like this. One like my old pet example So I gave in and praised this haiku. Then I went downstairs and ate some cheese. Mmmm. Thanks. Kuniharu Shimizu, our first artist-in-residence a decade ago, graciously allowed haijinx to reprint haiga from see haiku here. see haiku here #525 haiku appeared in NaHaiWriMo see haiku here #523 haiku from haijinx III:1 (2010)

haijinx volume IV, issue 1 March 2011 entrée welcome haikai haiku | haiga | haibun news a jumble of flowers Melissa Allen introduction Road Trips Stuff to Read Stuff to Write Getting Together The End articles Humour, Life and Haiku selected haiku & bio Frank Dullaghan Reviving Japanese Haikai through Chinese Classics Chen-ou Liu Kigo: The Heartbeat of Haiku Robert D Wilson reviews evolution: RMA 2010 Aubrie Cox Haiku Pix Review Carmen Sterba Live Again by John Stevenson Alan Summers pay attention: a river of stones Aubrie Cox NaHaiWriMo Aubrie Cox overview 1 | 2 Michael Dylan Welch interview 1 | 2 | 3 select haiku Michael Dylan Welch Aubrie Cox Alan Summers Shimi editor pages Melissa Allen Roberta Beary kris moon Carmen Sterba Alan Summers Mark Brooks (Shimi) about this issue acknowledgements contributors fin