What it is

June 2010: In a desperate attempt to stave off senility, the monkey began writing a poem a day. By summer's end he'd begun to run out of versified political rants and philosophical bloviations. Then he hit on the improbable idea of writing micro fiction in the form of Elizabethan sonnets. Eureka. The birth of the "Sonnets From Other Lives" series. Two hundred plus lives later, he's still at it.

Monday, July 19, 2010

7/19

what's going on?

looks kinda like
some sorta
blend of
haiku-ish minimalism
(Gary Snyder--merci)
interspersed with
rhymes of opportunity
(Kay Ryan--grazi)
-a propensity
to eschew
the first person singular
if possible (not to disparage
introspectionalism should
such a movement exist)
-a tendency to list
that lacks elegance
of syntax
& an awkward voice that's
not so much a matter of choice
though--it's
just the way the dendrites
flow


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