Our Pitiful Metaphors: haibun (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788182538290)

The ancient form of haibun-a prose poem followed by a haiku-is put to versatile use here as description, narrative, dreamscape, memory, conversation, ekphrastic, mini-biography, journal, and journey.

and you confuse the memory of one marsh with another and lose an argument about blue spruce or tamarack (it was spruce) and you miss the leaving of the red-winged blackbirds you miss so much these days (it was tamarack)

lake rimmed with gold
the sun finds (burns?)
a break in the clouds

Author: Jean LeBlanc
ISBN-10: 8182538297
ISBN-13: 9788182538290
Publisher: Cyberwit.Net
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2021
Pages: 76
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d