The last trolley-ful of HNA 2015 haijin about to leave from Old Chapel for The Desmond.
source: American Heritage Dictionary (4th Ed.) Click on image to enlarge. About three weeks ago, anticipating the hearty crowd of haijin that would be collecting at The Desmond and Union College for HNA 2015, I posted the plea "we need a collective noun", and asked for help finding "a good collective noun for a very large group of haiku poets." If you click the above link, you'll see that the posting evoked some interesting and inspired suggestions, but no conclusions were drawn.
Today, as HNA 2015 closes, and especially after opening my trusty old American Heritage College Dictionary (3rd Edition, 1993) to the section starting with the verb and noun "troll" and going to "Anthony Trollope", I'd like to nominate the collective noun "trolley": to wit, "a trolley of haiku poets."
As sleepy as I am this evening in my cozy Schenectady apartment on Cucumber Alley, I am quite pleased that I don't have to explain things to the bright and insightful haijin who commuted back and forth from The Desmond to Union College for Haiku North America 2015. Naturally, our Comment section is open for your reactions (pro or con), and for haiku, senryu, tanka, renku, rengay, or haibun incorporating the word "trolley."
Today, as HNA 2015 closes, and especially after opening my trusty old American Heritage College Dictionary (3rd Edition, 1993) to the section starting with the verb and noun "troll" and going to "Anthony Trollope", I'd like to nominate the collective noun "trolley": to wit, "a trolley of haiku poets."
As sleepy as I am this evening in my cozy Schenectady apartment on Cucumber Alley, I am quite pleased that I don't have to explain things to the bright and insightful haijin who commuted back and forth from The Desmond to Union College for Haiku North America 2015. Naturally, our Comment section is open for your reactions (pro or con), and for haiku, senryu, tanka, renku, rengay, or haibun incorporating the word "trolley."
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