Wednesday, June 28, 2017

... long nights








have you ever noticed
4 o' clock in the morning
is the middle of the night?


all of our nights are long now
since the Solstice moon






2 comments:

bandit said...




Liuyue and Bandit

June 28th, 2017

bandit said...

‘Tan-renga – its essential nature seems to have been distorted by the impact of maekuzuke. I’ve nothing against verse capping. Just observing that it’s not the same genre. So what most often happens in a modern context when you put two (English language haikai) people together to write a call+response is they turn cerebral and/or witty by default. It’s a shame, because the aesthetics of tan-renga – all the issues of linkage, dialogue, instinct, etc. – are just the same as renku.

Tanka – yeah, there’s not a lot of trace of ‘upper verse/lower verse’ left. Most people writing in English I’ve spoken to about it don’t understand the question.’

John E. Carley