strange and fanciful hero
Random Art Prompt
From words on page 33 of One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg (Jonathan Cape, 2016).
... and occasional Tanka... and Haibun. Started after a competition on the unbound.co.uk blog (see #1 and #2). Mostly actually senryu, I think. This year attempting to publish a Haiku every day - 365 Haiku a Day. For good or for ill, I always aim to stick rigidly to a 5-7-5 structure - forgive me if I have counted the syllables wrong, often they are how I have said, or thought, them in my head rather than their official number.
help me keep alive
as old people forgotten
the future will be
From words on page 33, ish, of Young Hag by Isabel Greenberg (Jonathan Cape, 2024).
tell her, “anyone.”
“ugh, fine, but tell him to stop -
war may interject.”
From words on page 52, or thereabouts, of Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg (Jonathan Cape, 2020).