A light drizzle
sprinkles an up-turned boot —
fence post.
About Masago
- Masago
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- From "The Haiku Anthology" I became interested in Haiku and I have since written numerous haiku, senyru, and tanka. "Masago", my haiku pen-name, means "grain(s) of sand" in Japanese. I have recently started learning Esperanto and Japanese. A few years ago I developed a new eastern verse form which we now call 'Renhai'.
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8 comments:
A light drizzle
sprinkles an up-turned boot -
fence post.
979: Footwear.
[Flipping a boot up-side-down and putting it on a fence post is another rural cultural oddity. There are several ideas on the origin of this. I like the one that says a farmer would use such a boot on a post to indicate his whereabouts to passersby. The boot pointing parallel to the road indicated that he wasn't at home. Pointing toward the house meant he was at home. I would add that perhaps if the boot was missing that it was an indication he was in the field working.]
Well, my boot's going to be pointing parallel to the road for the next two days. :)
there must be a whole vocabulary we could devise based on different items of footwear and clothing
no stop there - i've only done one and it's already smutty :)
I've never heard of this -- really interesting
my dad spend 12 or so years as a vagabond. He said that the hobo's left signs like that for other hobo's who followed.
**free food here.
**Stay away from this place
etc.
I sure wish I'd listened more to his stories.
What an interesting oddity. I always thought it was so the hole in the bottom could get a look at the sky. Love it!!
how interesting!
i like :)
Aurora: Look forward to your speedy return. :-)
Floots: *blush*
Andrew: :-) The things people do.
Pamela: I'd love to have heard his stories too.
John: Thanks.
Pat: *smile* "The other perspective".
Polona: Thanks.
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