missing nothing, gary! if you don’t get it after one or two reads, no biggie — there’s always more! which is the nice thing about short poems. haiku can be found in lots of places, but these are just short poems/haiku/rooku/youku/trueku blah. thanks for the comments…
Right, Matt. I forgot he had broadened the format net. This ‘short poem’ contains an evocative simile. But I would question the pessimism of the alternative reading. Though Rhoda seems to have read it as a statement of macho bravado, it’s decidedly misanthropic, in my view. Care to comment?
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:54 pm
say brother, can ya spare me a dime?
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:46 am
Sad observation, but I guess it is true from a man’s perspective.
January 23rd, 2010 at 11:18 am
This is either an axiom or a simile. Neither reading renders it a haiku. What am I missing?
January 23rd, 2010 at 2:09 pm
missing nothing, gary! if you don’t get it after one or two reads, no biggie — there’s always more! which is the nice thing about short poems. haiku can be found in lots of places, but these are just short poems/haiku/rooku/youku/trueku blah. thanks for the comments…
January 23rd, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Broken is huge, like death.
January 25th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
I like the haiku, Matt. Good images.
January 26th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Right, Matt. I forgot he had broadened the format net. This ‘short poem’ contains an evocative simile. But I would question the pessimism of the alternative reading. Though Rhoda seems to have read it as a statement of macho bravado, it’s decidedly misanthropic, in my view. Care to comment?