Did You See the Moon Honey: A Crown of Haibun

In their luminous new collaboration, poets Katie Dozier and Timothy Green intertwine their voices in the form of a haibun crown that traces the orbit of intimacy across the phases of a shared life.

Written just after the poets were wed, Did You See the Moon Honey journeys through the quiet rituals that make a marriage: tending the garden, raising children, watching light move across a room together. Each haibun-part prose poem, part haiku-becomes both a love letter and a mirror, reflecting how two poets can write not just beside each other, but through one another.

Expanding on the experiment begun in Hot Pink Moon, this book deepens the dialogue between poem body and verse, earth and sky, self and other. The result is an intimate duet that pulses with wonder, humor, and tenderness-proof that poetry, like the moon, reveals its truest light in reflection.

Praise:

Did You See the Moon Honey is the second 30-day haibun cycle in a form created by Dozier and Green in this outstanding follow-up to Hot Pink Moon. Each haibun skillfully links haiku and prose and is further linked through a well-crafted daisy chain of shared words, with the last stem looping back to the first bloom to complete the haibun crown. Momentum builds as the evolving prompt primes a dynamic volley between the poets that elevates both intimate and everyday moments. At a time when contemporary haibun is exploding with innovation, the haibun crown is a welcome and ingenious expansion to the range of possibilities.
-Kat Lehmann, author of No Matter How It Ends a Bluebird’s Song

What an exhilarating romp! Half the fun in this book is seeing how each haibun becomes a springboard for the next, catapulting the reader into new worlds, the authors finding imaginative leaps from even the most uncommon words and phrases: palimpsest, bioluminescence, memento mori ... The other half is simply enjoying each haibun on its own. As I did with their first collection of haibun crown, Hot Pink Moon, I finished Did You See the Moon Honey feeling amazed, admiring, and, most of all, joyous.
-Rich Youmans, editor of Contemporary Haibun Online

Green’s meditative precision and Dozier’s energetic spontaneity weave into a dialogue that is both intimate and expansive, where each haibun builds upon the last in a continuous thread. What emerges is not only a sequence of poems but a portrait of two poets discovering how love itself can become a poetic form. I highly recommend this reflective, renewing, and luminous collection.
-Joshua Eric Williams, author of Silent After