Matt Hetherington is a writer, musician, and non-godfather living in Melbourne. His most recent collection is I Think We Have (Small Change Press, 2007). He is also on the board of the Australian Haiku Society.
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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.
say brother, can ya spare me a dime?
Sad observation, but I guess it is true from a man’s perspective.
This is either an axiom or a simile. Neither reading renders it a haiku. What am I missing?
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…
Broken is huge, like death.
I like the haiku, Matt. Good images.
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.
– Lorin
Ihanan lisäyksen olet kiklosirjakakoesmiisi hankkinut! Kissa joka tuli jouluksi kotiin ja Mannerin teos löytyvät myös Naukulasta. Nyt jäi vähän kiinnostamaan nuo Herriotin kissakirjat….Hmmmm.
Of course….why didn't I think of that?!