"all day
shoveling sheep manure
the mind clear at last"~James Tipton
street from my son's school.
Driving to drop my son off for cross-country (running) practice this morning, we passed by a local farm. Often there are sheep, cows and llamas out grazing in the fields. On this foggy, moist morning, I was reminded of a short poem I had also just recently become acquainted with as a result to a Twitter post (of all things).
My initial post read "(my name) is is enjoying the solitary satisfaction of soaping and rinsing and soaping and rinsing window screens and sills." To this an old college friend of mine shared only the poem above by James Tipton from his collection of haiku and senryu (pronounced "send- you") entitled Proposing to the Woman in the Rear View Mirror. (Note: Unfortunately, the unique spacing of Tipton's poem could not be set in this post, but check out the link for the original type set.)
Though near as I can tell Tipton's poem above does not follow the formal structure of either the haiku or senyru, it is evocative of the spirit of the form and quite lovely in its sentiment. I look forward to giving this previously unknown (to moi) poetic form a try...
Stay Poetic!
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