A HyperQBist Portrait

 GERTRUDE

Malachite sugar apple

watermelon orders

carafe

silk vegetabler

breakages glitter

spectacle kind

faint yellow splendor

window length

butter ribbons

Picasso (probably)

The colorpuntal reads “legal tender  a silver beer stein filled with buttons” which is maybe a surrealist senryu. Maybe not. I dunno, but I dig it regardless. First part of a three piece sequence on famous people related to Pgh. next up is August Wilson & then Romare Bearden. 

The HyperQBist Revolution is Here

 Can’t won’t don’t stop rocking to the rhythm, because I get down, because I get down.

A Probably HyperQBist Haiku & a Prism Haiku

 This is very likely the best haiku I will ever write. If I never write a better one then at least I wrote this one. It’s the last haiku in my “Splatter” sequence and in conversation with this great haiku by Buson:

pear blossoms

a woman reads a letter

by moonlight

I always dug that Buson haiku and was playing around and suddenly saw something. Maybe you’ll see it too. 

luminous sea

a man reads a letter

by moonlight

If not, then the “luminous” can reflect and see the luminous “C” which the man both reads and reeds with flute and pen as he reeds a sea of melody and he reeds a sea of ink as he reads a sea of light and he reads a see of light as he reeds this C in both ink and air and the “C” is key and as key is luminous as all white notes and he reeds this see by moonlight and he reeds this letter “bye moonlight” as he finds one hundred ways to read a lyric “buy moonlight” and the letter is by moonlight and in moonlight and of moonlight all of which of course he buys under this crescent reflected and reflective moon. 

Also along these lines is this JSF (Japanese short form) poem that uses a 3-D word. I will call these “prism haiku” for now. 

bay breeze

the curl of a wavicle

across the water