marlene mountain
one-line haiku
'connections' [w/friends in whcmm]
2000s

 

the connections 3

'the jane connection'

september 10 2003-may 11 2004

1
The Technique of Comparison
something about dubya's speech something about the asters
2
The Technique of Contrast
black snake on the front steps a bit of autumn warmth
3
The Technique of Association
experimenter a name given me by 'newbies' & 'traditionalists'
4
The Technique of the Riddle
even out in the woods other-lined a mystery to me
5
The Technique of Sense-switching
a true blue american in bed irises left to fall over
aahs for an indigo male song yet the female breast ignored
6
The Technique of Narrowing Focus
a haiku explained to a broad-minded & a narrowed-minded guy
county flooding a little girl thrown from her car
7
The Technique of Using a Metaphor
blame the illegal immigrants metaphorically speaking
8
The Technique of Using a Simile
autumn crow dusk settles on a bare limb
9
The Technique of the Sketch or Shiki's Shasei
january speech the good news & the bad news disguised
10
The Technique of Double Entendre (or double meanings)
'how now brown cow'
11
The Technique of using Puns
if something happened to dubya there's another dick in line
'high coup hai ku' just a haiku way of life
12
The Technique of Word-plays
hot and bothered collared by the cold
13
The Technique of Verb /Noun Exchange
personified into men 'the discovery channel'ed dinosaurs
a superbowled over a breast for the bowled-over media pimps
14
The Technique of Close Linkage
if we could get into iraq alive to cheer up the dead
15
The Technique of Leap Linkage
link & especially leap on a tired day but one's just gotta
16
The Technique of Mixing It Up
both uncapitalized nature but not senryu dogwood and mm
17
The Technique of Sabi SAH-BEE
a would-be hermit who needs to go somewhere & somewhere else
18
The Technique of Wabi WAH-BEE
the short day the little-bitty longer day through
19
The Technique of Yugen
patches of white grass and patches of green snow
20
The Technique of the Paradox
most so far almost buried before death
21
The Technique of The Improbable World
winter night outage scares the living daylights out of us
in the group of hanging in not in the group of hanging out
22
The Technique of Using Humor
without cable tv missed breast moments by blyth and basho
23
The Technique of 'As Is Above: Is Below
dubya's gonna christianize the world now it's wag the testicle*
*during clinton's war his critics accused him of 'wagging the dog'
24
The Technique of finding the Divine in the Common
in fits and starts the gullywash rain through bare poplars

note for 23
*during clinton's war his critics accused him of 'wagging the dog'

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