open sky :: SAMVAAD/ 15th February
- Aparna Pathak
- Feb 15
- 1 min read
hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
lost
in my digital footprint ...
the weight of snow
-Jacob Salzer
(First published in Kingfisher #2, December 2020. Also appears in Unplugged:Haiku & Tanka, Lulu Press Inc., 2022)
Here is the commentary by the poet Jacob Salzer himself.
When I wrote this haiku six years ago, it was during the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in a lot more time spent behind a computer screen for most people.
When I wrote this ,I was also thinking about my carbon footprint that's associated with how much electricity I use by using computers and the internet. I also thought about how we can get lost in the internet (for good and not so good reasons), just as we can lose ourselves in a movie or a book or an article that we read. The exposure to such an enormous amount of information readily available at our fingertips can be overwhelming. T…
This haiku is stunning.
Impressive expression through these words where the snow is lost in the footprint albeit digital! A nicely penned haiku by Jacob Salzer! Thank you for sharing, Sanjuktaa and Aparna!
This is fantastic!
Such a profound and wonderful image.