I’ve read only a couple dozen haibun. Contemporary Haibun Online (CHO) gives criteria and examples and week 23 of One deep breath gives the challenge to write one. CHO says it should be direct, concrete, have economical imagery, be infused with life and energy, lighthanded, playful with unexpected turns showing how the haiku came to […]
Author Archives: Pearl
cut loose
something that is and might become more. a wingnut tightening the already taut unlessoned unlistening bright as a jaydaw’s eye in sun, hunch of spine might kink that way caw call out, a sharpness raps, what, not clouds, azure brittle density of lead crystal. off-note chime will do as a focus. exhale the air held […]
Unseen
— knee to thigh on steps locked observatory door what ever could we do? — One Deep Breath Prompt: Unseen —
reader
I think, perhaps, what I need is a stable of poet and non-poet readers who don’t know my life history so they can’t use that as a cheat sheet. I want the poems seen by someone in isolation of building it into a personality or image of a whole person. I want it looked at […]
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pot steam plume huge laugh muted as eye catches mile high clouds – One Deep Breath: Yugen —