a hot date
the gentle creaking
of moored boats
(Originally published in Frogpond vol. 43:3 (fall) 2020).
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Marta Chocilowska
Marta Chocilowska lives in Warsaw, Poland. She is a fan of cats, music, poetry and cycling. In 2013 she joined the Warsaw Haiku School-Kuzu. Her haiku have appeared in The Asahi Shimbun (Asahi Haikuist Network), Faces and Places Haiku Anthology, A Hundred Gourds, Brass Bell, Cattails, Chrysanthemum, Haiku Anthology of the 2nd International Haiku Conference, Cracow, 2015, IRIS International Haiku Magazine, KUZU, Whirligig, Wild Plum and WHA Haiga Contest.
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I love the interplay of juxtaposition, from hot date (various levels) to gentle and creaking of nearby boats. The poem gives and gives and gives.
warm regards,
Alan
re:
a hot date
the gentle creaking
of moored boats
—Marta Chocilowska
(Originally published in Frogpond vol. 43:3 (fall) 2020)
I can imagine that a hot date developed into physical passion, perhaps hidden by trees, bushes, etc… close enough to a river where boats are moored, and can be heard in the near distance.
Are the two parts of the haiku in the same timeline?
Is this a poem of reminiscence? Perhaps the author was nervous and listening out to sounds in the early stages of their passion, worried about someone or a group stumbling upon them. Perhaps things appeared safe and private and the only noise for a while was the gentle creaking of boats in the near distance, and nothing else, and then the passion fully took over.
Of course post-passion, the author might be more attuned to background noise.
I don't get that that the people were actually in a boat, but close by, near a riverbank perhaps.
warm regards,
Alan
if it was a hot date
it wouldn't be
gentle creaking
now would it.
LOL!