About a month ago I started putting all my haiku into a separate file. As always, they are arranged strictly chronologically. The first was written in 2004, which means that I am well into the eighth year of the evolving project. The last few days I have worked on the collection quite diligently, but the end is still far from sight. Although each of them contains only one-hundred and sixty characters, including spaces, which amounts to about thirty words per haiku, they are many of them already. In fact, there are so many of them that I cannot even attempt a reasonable count at this time. The file currently boasts of more than ten-thousand words, but it is likely to triple in size in a week or so. Including titles, which contain the last few words of each haiku, as well as dates, the file must currently contain close to three-hundred of them, but there could be about a thousand haiku written over the years. Why am I doing all this, though? It would be wonderful to see them printed one day, of course. With a bit of fiddling with fonts and margins, they would look formidable in print. Almost identical in size, short but stout, they would cover page after page in marching columns.