# The Flea-Driven Traveler & Fifty-One Senryu, Haiku, Haibun

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/07/20/the-flea-driven-traveler-fifty-one-senryu-haiku-haibun/
- Published: 2016-07-20T21:58:34+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Michael Chacko Daniels[⌊WP_20160718_14_57_34_Pro 2⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/WP_20160718_14_57_34_Pro-2.jpg)
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Pages:** 128 **Year of Publication:** 2016 **Price:** Rs 150 / $25 **ISBN: **978-
93-5045-135-9 (9789350451359)

_**About the Author**_
 Michael Chacko Daniels is a former community worker and 
clown who grew up in Mumbai. **Writers Workshop**, India, has published five of 
his books: _**Split in Two**_ (poetry, 2004), _**Anything Out of Place Is Dirt**_(
novel, 2004), _**That Damn Romantic Fool**_ (novel, 2005), _**Morning in Santiniketan**_(
haiku, 2010) and _**The Mendonҫa Mystery and Other Stories**_ (short stories, 2014).
He worked as a publisher and editor for several years with the New River Free Press
of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and as an assistant editor with The Asia Foundation, 
San Francisco. As a community worker, he has been actively involved in a variety
of areas including the Jobs for Homeless Consortium of Alameda County which he helped
establish in 1988 and look after through mid-2004. For five years he was a Volunteer
In Service To America (VISTA).

Daniels is an alumnus of St. Michael’s High School, Wilson College, University of
Bombay (Department of Economics) and Northwestern University’s Medill School of 
Journalism. He is based in San Francisco.

_**Teaser**_

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Red-tail hawk
 swoops old Miwok sage scrub

Yellow-hooded woman
 daubs cliffs black, clouds sky

Rodeo Beach snowy egrets
 dive for fish in the foamy lagoon

_Pray for us_

 

18

Dust djinn spins dead leaves
 scrapes sidewalk’s grit; sapling sighs    bends   
sighs

 

43

Pink sand verbena
 bloom; rangers string wire fence Where have the deer gone?

_**Contents:**_
 52 pieces