Wire Haiku

downwind of winter:
we shudder, and shelter,
and make ourselves scarce

It’s time to feel something.

So last month was all about the celestial theme: suns and moons and the music of the spheres. It was fun, but by the end it was running a little thin and I was struggling to find ways to shoehorn sunlight into everything I wrote.

This month is a little more abstract, and — hopefully — a little more freeing. This month we’re working with the idea of sensation: the idea that feeling nature is just as important as seeing or hearing it. To me a haiku is a textual snapshot of a moment in time, and the physical sensations of that moment are import details worth including.

Also, to share in this theme of feeling, I thought I’d restart the practice of sharing what I’m listening to as I’m writing. Today it’s the newly released NO INTENTION by SBTRKT and LEILAH, which to me feels like the thematic mirror to Drake’s Feel No Ways. I first discovered SBTRKT about ten years ago in a random YouTube video, but they’re always a dream to listen to.