hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
switching to
a lower case i
autumn stars
- Matthew Markworth
(Modern Haiku, Volume 51.3, Autumn 2020
Republished on THF Touchstone Individual Poems Long List and Short List for 2020
Republished in New Resonance 12
Republished in Haiku 2021)
Most beautifully written
Thank you all for your comments. Here's what the poet says about the poem:
This poem was written during a period of my writing that I refer to as “Fragment + Phrase”, a technique that no doubt others have used. Essentially I would write a phrase either about a concrete event that happened in my everyday life or sometimes about a certain feeling. The phrase “switching to a lower case i” fell into both categories as it was written while literally switching my “I’s” to “i’s” when writing, and also stemming from a feeling of insignificance that most of us feel at some point. From there, the phrase was matched against many different fragment ideas to find which combination captured…
Nice One. Loved the word 'switching'. its like one switches the 'on and off' button when the time is ripe. Or the seasons automatically switches the inner cells to change.
Touches the soul!
Love this haiku, one to treasure.