flauta prohibited

Haiku doesn’t come that easily for me –

• I come up with phrases that are three or four syllables, not five or seven
• I have trouble describing just what is there
• I’m always trying to introduce some far-out wacky metaphor

So – I think haiku might be a good practice for awhile, just to counteract my tendencies and widen my field.

Frog acid brigade – five syllable phrase that came into my head yesterday. Sure do like the sound of it. But it doesn’t belong in a haiku, does it.

How much of poetry is really a self-induced trance?

Can you be your own inspiration?

Can you make connections with those messengers? (same question)

Karen Swenson workshop tomorrow

Heavily scented bathrooms are required here. Also bowls of hard candy in every conference room.

Poetry as haze – you look at life through it.

“Influenced by” Carlos Edmundo de Ory’s Aerolites

aerolite: a stony meteorite

More about Ory, translation by google: Of their work titles like “Technique and weeping” stand out, “flauta prohibited”, “the sonetos”, “Lee without fear”, “opened Poetry”, “Metanoia” and “Meteorites”.

I’m sorry, that makes me want to laugh without weeping.

I’m really tempted to try to make a piece of software or technology perform a poetic feat. Like a little self-involved set of links. But I’m hesitant due to the gimmickry factor. You couldn’t possibly take a manufacture like that seriously. No, a book you can accept, but not a “site.” And you have to consider the co-author – Microsoft? I think not. Maybe an open source product. The technology side would have to be very clean.

Time to go home. Maybe I will finally get a chance to work on some exhibits this weekend. But don’t count on it.

Best,
Worst