If I could be a
dragonfly in LA I'd
sell my camera.
In honor of William Wadsworth inventor of the Western haiku, who explains it this way:
Just as haiku conventionally invoke nature and leave out the lyric "I," a Western Haiku (my invention) must invoke an urban environment and be as self-centered as possible, preferably with an "I" in each of the three lines. Any other way the true haiku is subverted, besides the three line and 5-7-5 syllable construction, is welcome in a Western Haiku. -- from today's Poetry Speaks calendar
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