Riding one of those "serendipitous" swells of the Internet Surf, I landed at Ray Rasmussen's wonderful website, A Haibun Journal. Here I have learned a new word, haibun, which denotes a combination of terse prose and haiku poems, usually imagistic and objective, and usually written in the present tense--often with a light touch.

Having experimented with Haiku through the years, I immediately realized that the Haibun was the form in which to express this aspect of the Vision Quest. Yes, Haiku "purists," some of these poems depart somewhat from the traditional form. I do not always reference a season, and while, all of them have the required seventeen syllables, the length of the individual lines vary.