Thursday, April 17, 2014

Oulipost #17: HAIKUISATION

prompt: The haiku is a Japanese poetic form whose most obvious feature is the division of its 17 syllables into lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Haikuisation has sometimes been used by Oulipians to indicate the reduction of verses of normal length to lines of haiku-like brevity. Select three sentences from a single newspaper article and “haiku” them.



source: http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140417/SPORTS/404170321


herring. they go by.
jumping, pooling, and schooling.
damming of rivers,

by many names, but
habitat degradation,
anadromous fish.

And what eats herring?
Everything reported,
fighting hopeless odds.
 

2 comments:

Nicole said...

I like that last one.

beth said...

Nice series Katy!