Using a beautiful recording I have of @stellato-strings playing her violin, this is both my testing techniques for the collaboration I'm doing with poet Praise Jourdain with their "ô delirious God" collection - and its my offering to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge, more information about which is below:

"beyond the talus
withering in the valley
- a hanging glacier"

This haiku by Lisa Germany is part of the Stay Cool project - a collaboration between Naviar Records and Red Earth Ecology that aims to promote techniques for Japanese-inspired prose and foster international collaboration.

Lisa is a multidisciplinary artist whose work begins with walking, preferably in wild places. Rooted in awe and attentive to the natural world, she writes haiku and haibun in the traditional Japanese tradition, seeking moments of beauty in everyday experience.

The Australian living in Arctic Greenland gave a presentation that started the Stay Cool workshops. Her presentation can be viewed at https://youtu.be/aqy5HYAi6Fc or a summary can be read at ree.org.au/2026/02/17/stay-cool-with-lisa-germany/

The Stay Cool project will culminate in an exhibition in the city of Griffith, Australia from 20 April.

Haiku and Picture by Lisa Germany - this piece takes small fragments as both as its starting point.

Submission deadline: 18th March 2026
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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