APRIL WINDOW
To write hokku one should live in a house which either has a leaky roof or one with the potential of leaking. ~R.H. Blyth
WINDOW IN THE ROOF OVERHEAD
EYE HOLE JUST ABOVE A BRIDAL BED
WHERE THE ROOF LEAKS IN
THE GODHEAD CRYSTALLINE
©2014 “April Window” stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
notes
Micropoetry: #poetheme #window #mythopoetics
Basho wrote: A spring rain/a roof leak trickles/down the wasps' nest . (R.H. Blyth, trans.)
"Poetry is a perfumed wasp, a feathered ladder." -Brian Landis, Feathered Ladder (Fisher King Press, 2014), p. 112. see also pp. 116-117 for the dual nature of the wasp to transgress mythic boundaries through narrative metalepsis revealing a hidden dialog going on between a world in which one tells and a world of which one tells; truly a wind's eye or wind's hole or window metaphor at work.
image credit: original painting, 1892 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “in Bed-The Kiss”
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec/in-bed-the-kiss-1892
Overlays applied to original image and then set into both round and rounded corner frames by stephanie pope image reproduction ©2014 mythopoetry.com
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