Sunday, April 1, 2007

'i took the time to check your blog, and all i got was this lousy haiku'


wandering Oakland
an unkempt college student
drums on a djembe


5 comments:

Jo Custer said...

tweedy, smiling night
soft thoughts with my rucksack, shh
like i never knew

Jo Custer said...

non-descript twilight
hashes out the eiderdown
box springs on the take

sometimes i wonder, matt, just how many insults to the haiku Western society has made.

Matthew said...

i don't know. at least it gets people writing poetry.

Jo Custer said...

yeah, something about comfort with pre-defined limits does it for me, like the syllable space just asks to be filled.

i had dyslexia as a kid, and i think that's what got me writing more than anything, if motivation can really be narrowed down. overcoming that and learning how to read on my own, apart from and later than all the other kids, was such an accomplishment.

Matthew said...

I'm gonna write more on that soon too, God willing...