My goal this summer is to do a chapbook of a hiking trip to Cathedral Park in Canada. I will be doing it in letterpress so brevity will be of great concern. It will be about twelve pages on quality paper, hand sewn binding and a mix of haiku and other short forms. Not sure of the print types that will be available to me yet. Frank at dVerse has asked us to consider brevity so I am starting my project. Each poem would be on its own page.
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top of Stone City
glacier carved granite garden
alpine fir and larch
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white cloud
castes shadow below
on mountain lake
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distant mountains
stretch
across horizon
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kwash kwash kwash
my steps grind the stones
of Stone City
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Best wishes on the chapbook. Using letterpress is another motivation for brevity. Brevity not only focuses the reader but the writer as well. I liked all of the haiku especially the last one about grinding stones while walking. They make me want to walk there someday as well.
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Brevity works so well to those thoughts we get when hiking.
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