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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
the swallow impulse is what rhythm is built on. forget about the heart. it's the gulp towards which we must seek. the swallow impulse is to remind us that we must feed the beast. we must feed the ourobouros
a thing makes the brain malleable, those of us who get off on having our minds blown, by having our beliefs challenged, we crave being put off balance, and having to ground ourselves with only our instinct
Here's a small collection of haiQu with illustrations. I used the haiQu imagery as text prompts for generated art.
I love the early image generation software versions because they're so bad. As image generation gets more accurate and realistic, the resulting images become much less interesting.
I also love that "artificial intelligence," is such a dumb phrase, and completely inaccurate.
Each spread is supposed to contain one image alongside the associated haiQu, but the printer fucked up the pages. (Maybe I did? (but I don't think so))
why is there no paradox for antonym?
imagining is the gateway drug to dreaming which is the drug we are here to consume