chocolate-covered ants?!
At least they don't crunch
like grashoppers do.
toques
for the pope's nose
Wes called his condoms—
now go home and pray!
John's Bio grades
have improved since he's studied
hydroponics
coloured
water
between pressed glass sheets—
amoeboid light show!
psychedelic, man!
Chris has painted his work boots
flourescent orange
the
apathetic
eighties are over!
who cares?
Found senryu from a construction site
sucking
helium
from party balloons—
we talk like Munchkins
meth
mouth—
his grey chicklet smile
not so broad these days
solvent huffers—
we'll huff and we'll puff
we'll blow your house down
Fast Eddy Bangshaft—
out of condoms, so he
uses a baggy
Richard
Stevenson's notes about the Composition of these
Haiku and Senryu for Teens
A few days ago I
got an e-mail message directed to the members of the pacifi-kana
haiku group announcing a couple of other members' intentions
to put together a haiku anthology for teens. Well, I started
writing specifically for this anthology, but must have been
mentally constipated from all the teaching I do because the
dam broke and I was flooded with memories. (The editors in
their preamble suggested would-be contributors try to write
these haiku from the points of view of the teenagers we all
once were.) I have enough of these for a full-length book of
their own now!
Update About Richard Stevenson, CA
Richard Stevenson is
the author of two dozen books and half a dozen chapbooks. He
teaches at Lethbridge College and lives in southern Alberta.
Recent haikai titles include Tidings of Magpies
(Spotted Cow Press, 2008), The Emerald Hour (Ekstasis
Editions, 2008), and Windfall Apples
(Athabasca University Press, 2010).
