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triveni spotlight: 23 november

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh GUEST EDITOR: Paul Miller (paul m.)


if trees could be landlords


Eve Luckring

Heron's Nest XVII:3 (2015)



Note by the Guest Editor:

These poems have been pulled from my ever-growing document of favorite haiku.

Some I have admired for years, while others I have newly discovered. This is the

joy of poetry, as of life: its ever-changing course of discovery. I encourage all

readers of poetry to keep such a file. As far as has been possible, I have obtained

permission from the writers to share them.


– Paul Miller (paul m.)


5 Comments


Srini
Srini
Nov 23, 2022

This is a superb monoku! I salute the economy of expression.


Having just seen a couple of huge trees felled in my neighbourhood for the 'convenience' of residents, I could personally relate to it too.

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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
Nov 24, 2022
Replying to

Yes. It's beautiful.

Srini, will you be joining us at the Triveni utsav 2023?

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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
Nov 23, 2022

Excellent one. I've always enjoyed reading Eve's haiku.

This is too good.

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Bhavana Nissima
Bhavana Nissima
Nov 23, 2022

Just lovely! What is striking is the jarring noise produced in this unusual alignment… a noise that questions both within the notion of “how as a landlord” as well as this knowing— trees don’t do stuff like “landlording”. A smack on the anthropomorphic projects.

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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
Nov 23, 2022

Lovely! They are landlords and we are the ones occupying their place without giving them proper rent!!

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