Tag: haiku

Sifting through Kerouac’s Western Haiku

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A blog post haiku

Hey there and howdy, hello.

Come find me on Substack.

This blog is hosted on WordPress, and there’s a whole WordPress ecosystem that, in theory, helps connect people.

I don’t think I post often enough for that to work, but I really do appreciate the folks who follow me here.

What I like about Substack is that they’ve found a way to incorporate what I also liked about Twitter. There’s the blogging platform (newsletters), the feed (tweets, but they call them posts), and there’s also a chat. It’s pretty tidy.

Speaking of tidy. My latest on Substack is Small Mercies: Sifting through Kerouac’s Western Haiku (and a note from Tom Petty.

I’d like to share more rough draft stories and poems with you, but doing that here makes them ineligible for publication almost anywhere else. I think Substack offers a work-around. I can put rough drafts in the chat, which is only visible to subscribers (subscriptions are free). Just a thought.

Wintry Mix: Natsume Sōseki, Neil Young, and My Eldest…

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I posted “Over the wintry” earlier today.

I’ve been playing “Winterlong” on guitar between outside snow day fun and shoveling.

Inspired by Natsume, I thought it would be fun to ask/make my eldest to write a haiku about today’s weather. We read The Trials of Apollo series together, and every chapter starts with a haiku, which is to say, the form is familiar. As is the cheek:

I like to eat snow.

I pelt my Dad with snowballs.

Don’t eat the yellow snow.

I mean, no lies detected.