summer haiku d’été – gray crane = grue grise


summer haiku d’été – gray crane = grue grise

gray crane
skimming the lake –
wild rice moon

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grue grise
s’approchant du lac –
lune du riz sauvage

Richard Vallance 


In the month of September, the Indigenous North American Anishinaabe Peoples (also known as Ojibwe) begin the rice harvest. During each of the thirty days of Manoominike-Giizis (”Wild Rice Moon”) harvesters head out in canoes to harvest wild rice from the smooth surface of lakes with names like Blackbird, Big, Pigeon and, naturally, Rice Lake.
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