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).
... 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).