Lee, your helpful comments about communicating meaningful, direct experience made me think again about my experience with the turtle yesterday. I didn't like the ambuguity of "live" (short or long "i"?), so I focused on my memory of seeing the turtle. It was a jolt, and that's how I got L3. And the turtle was more than just alive, he was peering.
peering turtle
on the highway’s center strip
fucked
I copied these points from one of your essays, and I've been studying them:
HAIKU
It is a poem
It is a poem limited in length, in English that limit being somewhere between 15 and 20 syllables
It presents images rather than ideas
It is intuitive rather than intellective
It uses observation of nature and the seasons as a basis for that intuition
Its observations are specific rather than general.
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