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?
well, 5 years later I catch up with this…shows what I've not been doing. :-)
Matt, it's an interesting enough simile… yes, a good short poem, in its way. (But there's no such bloody thing as 'rooku', as you & I both know, except as a local promotion effort by the few usual suspects, and I wouldn't say this simile amounts to a haiku.) I've read far better of your work.
Ihanan lisäyksen olet kiklosirjakakoesmiisi hankkinut! Kissa joka tuli jouluksi kotiin ja Mannerin teos löytyvät myös Naukulasta. Nyt jäi vähän kiinnostamaan nuo Herriotin kissakirjat….Hmmmm.
January 22nd, 2010 at 3:54 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?
May 15th, 2015 at 5:07 am
well, 5 years later I catch up with this…shows what I've not been doing. :-)
Matt, it's an interesting enough simile… yes, a good short poem, in its way. (But there's no such bloody thing as 'rooku', as you & I both know, except as a local promotion effort by the few usual suspects, and I wouldn't say this simile amounts to a haiku.) I've read far better of your work.
– Lorin
November 11th, 2016 at 10:05 pm
Ihanan lisäyksen olet kiklosirjakakoesmiisi hankkinut! Kissa joka tuli jouluksi kotiin ja Mannerin teos löytyvät myös Naukulasta. Nyt jäi vähän kiinnostamaan nuo Herriotin kissakirjat….Hmmmm.