Free Carrot Juice (naviarhaiku588)

11/04/2025 3 min
Free Carrot Juice (naviarhaiku588)

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Episode Synopsis

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 19 Apr 2019 & 9 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

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This original version of "Free Carrot Juice" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 588: The Past, Immutable.

The past, immutable -
an icicle stabs
directly downward

by Saitō Sanki

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 16 Apr 2019, Upper East Side, Manhattan, NYC, USA.

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge