Legal Research

Fishbowl Haiku

By Dan Michaluk

If there’s one time of year that should give us cause to pause and look out from our legal Fishbowls it’s the autumn. Given the season, I thought I’d invite us all to take a break from our computer screens and document briefs and look out our windows to reflect on nature.

I had just such a moment of distraction last spring that I let slip into a Tweet. Peg Duncan (keeper of the LexUM e-discovery case law digests) translated it into this wonderful English-style Haiku:

the tower creaks

in the cool east wind

ridable waves in Toronto

Just awesome! And pretty hard to match.

The last time I wrote a poem was in Grade 2, but here’s one for size anyway.

little lost fly

thirty floors above Bay Street

fly away home

Are you inspired? Please share a Fishbowl Haiku by way of comment.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).