Monday, August 15, 2005

"Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet" (hay(na)ku experiment)

Lorna Dee Cervantes
(1st poem after the book!) (1 of 26?)

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Towards A: New Beginning of the Alpha bet

***** (for A)



A
begins cautiously
dragging exhaust, feeling

gone,
hearing in
jonquil's knitted lap

music,
names, orange
poppies quieting real

statues,
tenuous unformed
vowels, wasted, X-ed,

zooed.
A burrows,
courageous, determined, energized,

fearing
G=D heard
in July's knowing

maple —
noticed, opulent
possibility quizzing returns;

sleeping
troubled until
Venus winds, "X"-s

Zeus.
A believes
cartons diminish everything,

flatten
gorges, heighten
interiors just knowing,

liking.
Memory: nimble
oscillating puppet, quicker

reality
sulking thinly,
unlit vase, wicked

xerox
zenith. A


(love
is missing)


8/15/05

1 Comments:

Blogger Emily Lloyd said...

Wow. The hay(na)ku form does wonders for an abecedarian (I didn't pick up the abc until the "vowels, wasted")...just effing great work, LDC. I like how the form especially mirrors the content in the first stanza and gap. I'll come back to read this again.

15/8/05 17:25  

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