Comprising a Life

The Bonsai, Travels and Haiku of Vaughn Banting

What is a haibun?

A haibun is a piece of  tersely written prose ending in, or embedded with one or more haiku. The two part nature of a haibun produces a sort of synergy, so that the prose portion of the haibun is dependant upon the appropriate haiku to end it and the haiku is weak without the prose to accompany it. There follows a collection of some of my own original haibun. Most but all of the collection concern themes related to hurricane Katrina