Kerouac’s Haiku
by Beth Vieira
Posted to What Are You Reading? on 2004-07-03 18:18:00
He calls them pops at one point. I also read Trip Trap recently, an account of his haiku trip across country, composing haiku. Since I’m primarily a haiku poet, I have a deep interest in experiments with the form. I’m also interested in Richard Wright’s haiku, which are splendid and in a way more remarkable than old Jack’s.
Here is a sampling:
In my medicine cabinet
the winter fly
has died of old age.
Missing a kick
at the icebox door
It closed anyway.
The moon had
a cat’s mustache
for a second.