Quiet (photo haibun)
After the rain storm
Silence falls over the woods
Summer heat returns
Bwooop!
The trio vs. the pirate-ladyman Recently lis opined that no native Utard remembers Lighthouse 20, the kid show that was broadcast on UHF channel 20. Now I have a slight dispute with lis, in that I remember the pirate on the show was played by a woman, and she recalls someone very different (a man, I presume). Now Lighthouse 20 was not by any means my favorite show (hell I think it replaced Gillagan's Island!), but I do remember it--not really fondly but I remember it. The real purpose of my writing is that I made the comparison of Lighthouse 20 to Hotel Balderdash--a show that apparently ran for 10 years on channel four here in SLC. Now this show was the bomb; not only did it start at 6:00 am 6:45 am and show nothing but 30's-late 40's Warner Brothers cartoons (you know, Bugs and Daffy, but not Porky Pig and certainly not that crap WB churned out from the 50s onward.) These cartoons, of course, were made for adults and the humor was mostly sophisticated in a slapstick kind...
I love the haibun form, and think it is very cool to use a photo for the prose part. Opens all kinds of meta-formal-questions.
ReplyDeleteThe photos aren't opening for me, here or in your flickr--I wonder why?
never mind--they're opening now. I was probably too quick on the draw from when you uploaded them.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I was thinking of how the haibun is usually just an expurgated story of how the haiku came about and how an image could take the place of the descriptive narrative. I'm thinking, too, of creating longer pieces that have both image and descriptive narrative.
ReplyDeleteHave you read Narrow Road to the Interior--or whatever that Basho poem is? One thing I like about the prose aspect of haibun is that it gives the rough-and-ready aspect of life with the small gems of the haiku flashing and gleaming out of all that.
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