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patamystic aka patamyxtic aka pumiquxt aka haiQ fOO
Matthew Muñoz's site features an extreme minimalist design, which is perfectly suited to his experimental writing and art, which is also minimalist. I see no About page, no Bio, no nothing, but a simple text list with four categories:
- advice
- poems &c
- links
- things i used to believe
Above that is a single poem (which is also a link):
When Raven slickly machinates,
that jackanapsing maven’s tricks
on cravens quickly hackles raise,
and cackles praise his razor wit.
The section "poems &c" (& content?) contains links to individual works from 2021-2025. I love that many of the works include no explanation, or contextual information, just writing or art. The site serves as a cohesive collection with a beautifully simple presentation.
New addition to our blogroll:
"Welcome to The Sciku Project – the latest scientific and mathematical discoveries, thoughts and ideas as scientific haiku."
example:
a deep understanding
of the chemistry of ice
cracks in our matrix
by John Hawkhead
5 - 7 - 5, whether in haiQu or haiku or senryu, has never been a rule. it began as a misunderstanding and most contemporary haiku poets know this.
still, in order to be recognizable as a relative of haiku, most haiQu follows the common form of:
short line to open
longer line in the middle
short line to finish
but i have, on occasion, also used:
longer line to open
shorter line
longer line to finish
exceptions and variations are allowed, as long as they don't result in poems that have an absence of similarities to haiku
When collecting phrases for use in haiQu, it is generally advisable to avoid taking them from poems (or lyrics).