PEPC LIBRARY

"Hay(na)Ku" is a form invented by Eileen Tabios in 2003. There is an anthology of the work, published the same year.

My own contribution to the form is a description of its word-per-line structure:

Form
Is One
Then Two Three

This relates to traditional "haiku" form, which is often taken to be three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.

Tom Beckett

Language
is the
fabric of consciousness.

The responsibility of
poets? To attend

to
its woof
and weave–to

unravel
it, even.
Paying close attention

is,
in itself,
a political act.

 

Self-Help Hay(na)ku, #2 (Dec. 2005

Integrate
your pissed-
off-ness, yo!

the
condition or
feeling of being

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Desire

If
one dreams
of specific acts

with
an unspecific
person, what then?

I
oscillate between
shadows and reflections.

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Improvised Aesthetic Device

Objects
are the
residue of attention.

Poetry
in a
time of terror

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Here
is where
the line forms.

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