With this post I want to make a suggestion of someone to follow. It's Sunday morning here on the far side of the world, so I suppose I can't quite consider this a follow friday post, but consider it of the same idea.

A year or so ago, I managed to convince @boxcarblue to start posting on a more regular basis again. At the time I was very happy to see him start to post haiku poems. I don't know if my haiku fanaticism made him curious enough to try his hand at it or if he was always curious but I just provided the push to publish his own on the blockchain. Either way, he has been posting a handful or two of poems every week since that time.

If you've never read his work, I can't recommend him enough. His haiku are always very good.

For those who don't know, I have been posting about haiku since I landed on the blockchain eight years ago. They say go with what you know, and I embraced that idea. At first I was posting about these short poems daily, but within the past fear years I've tuned that down to weekly as I explore other topics in my other weekly posts. Sometimes I share my own haiku, but usually I instead translate a classic haiku from Japanese and write about it a little. While I do write haiku for myself daily, I really don't consider myself a very good poet.

boxcarblue, though, is fantastic! Once again, I can't recommend him enough. Also, he recently had two of his haiku published. If you go follow him, also give him a big congratulations.

^{Not quite what I had in mind, but the mention of "haiku poet" in my request to ChatGPT probably confused it. Everyone know all haiku poets are Japanese and wear kimono all the time, after all. Vaguely female kimono at that (men's kimono don't have designs like that photo nor are they bright colors)}

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David LaSpina is an American photographer and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku. He blogs here and at laspina.org. Write him on Twitter or Mastodon.