Beach Sloth wrote a wonderful and amusing review/summary of my Hurricane Haiku chapbook. It is factually sound in every way except for the part about me being a 20-something who doesn’t own a bed. I am 31 and own a bed.
During Hurricane Sandy, I wrote some poems on twitter about my storm experience. They are collected here in a handy ebook for you to cherish and love for all time.
I need to update my Wes Anderson Movie haiku list…
HAIKU - WES ANDERSON MOVIES
I got bored one night and wrote these haiku summaries/reviews of Wes Anderson’s output thus far.
I think James Mercer
really likes to sing about
gold teeth and lost kites
I think that’s okay
since I like listening to
songs about those things
TALL WOMEN
Tall women like to
walk as if they own the world
and maybe they do
DARK CIRCLES
He looked closer at
his face in the mirror and
noticed dark circles
THUMBS UP
The elevator
operator exited
elated “thumbs up”
TAVERN MUSIC, BOAT TRAINS
What could he have had
in mind - cryptic words strung together
as if in a dream
RESULT - HAPPINESS
Take the morning sun
Add one carefree afternoon
Stir with zest and drink
“THESE MY BETTERS”
Drunk, he handed me
several sheets of paper
He hiccuped and said:
