Friday, January 18, 2008

American Haiku Friday




The bottoms of my shoes
are clean
from walking in the rain.
-Jack Kerouac

3 comments:

James said...

I love that. Can a haiku be 6, 2, 6? I really like it, but it's a new form to me.

Micah said...

This ain't your grandma's haiku.

Micah said...

Kerouac's work is actually pretty good. Some of it is a little too 'Zen' (even for me), but I did enjoy it. In the fine Western tradition, though, American Haiku is a bit of a hijacking of the original. But not without merit.