Winter Solitude
volume 10 issue 2, December 2009

To hear the original flute setting composed by our resident musician Choshi, and view a slideshow of all the poems submitted to our "Haiku this Haiga" feature, you will need the Macromedia Flash Player. If you do not see the animated banner at the top of this page, click here for Adobe's free download of the latest version.

With this issue, we have embarked on a new page format. Four years ago, while I was working with Debi Bender on the old World Haiku Review, I learned to keep things simple for the benefit of those readers who might still have older computers. At Haigaonline I have continued to do so, but I think by now we may assume that we are, after all, a journal that is about both art and poetry, and most of our readers will have systems and browsers that have the capability to handle frames. Thus, from here on, we'll be using a page design with the left frame sidebar always visible, no matter where you are in the issue. We hope you like the flexibility it will give you. Going to frames has changed some of the ways we've handled navigation and graphics, so please consider this issue a work-in-progress. Above all, Haigaonline remains committed to showing every haiga at its best.