atop the town flagpole,
a gob of bubblegum
holds my dead brother’s dime
– Nick Virgilio The Mann Library’s Daily Haiku, May 16, 2012
Sorry, but I just do not understand this haiku. It is probably me. I cannot get a good handle on the images. I sometimes think a Venn diagram is an interesting way to describe how much of the poet’s world intersects with the reader’s world. The circles may overlap a lot or a little. Maybe a few weeks of thinking about this haiku will help; but right now there is little intersection.
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atop a town flagpole
May 16, 2012 2 Comments
atop the town flagpole,
a gob of bubblegum
holds my dead brother’s dime
– Nick Virgilio The Mann Library’s Daily Haiku, May 16, 2012
Sorry, but I just do not understand this haiku. It is probably me. I cannot get a good handle on the images. I sometimes think a Venn diagram is an interesting way to describe how much of the poet’s world intersects with the reader’s world. The circles may overlap a lot or a little. Maybe a few weeks of thinking about this haiku will help; but right now there is little intersection.
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