Oulipost challenge for today: The haiku is a Japanese poetic form whose most obvious feature is the division of its 17 syllables into lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Haikuisation has sometimes been used by Oulipians to indicate the reduction of verses of normal length to lines of haiku-like brevity. Select three sentences from a single newspaper article and “haiku” them.
The first thing I discover is that it is going to be impossible to come close to the idea of juxtaposing two images when using a single sentence. Then I look again, and find that maybe it isn’t impossible at all:
Icy windshield (Photo credit: chromedecay)
Scrape ice from the windshield
curse the cold:
summer sunshine now
Pasteurized yolks
deep yellow, silky
stand up in pan
English: eleven double yolk eggs in a frying pan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Chicken Scratch 1 (Photo credit: Will Merydith)
Chickens benefit soil
search for grubs
through cow pats
SOURCES:
Spears, Tom, Unwelcome cold snap continues—
but there is a bright side, Ottawa Citizen print edition, April 17, 2014 (C3)
Robin, Laura, The Elusive Pastured Egg, Ottawa Citizen, print edition, April 17, 2014 (D1)
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Oh, my gosh, that first one is EXACTLY how i felt when i woke to snow, yesterday! Grrrrrr…..
They say here in Ottawa we are now getting the same amount of sun as we will on Aug. 25. Someone forgot to turn on the heat switch though!
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