Poetry
Christopher writes both short-form, prose poetry and micro-poetry. In terms of the latter, he typically writes haiku and senryu. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, writing poetry has become an increasingly important means for him to understand, or try to be at home, in our ever-changing world. Links to his published work can be found below.
Haiku/Senryu
Journals
Prose Poetry
Journals
Deadly Orgone Radiation, D.O.R. (Issue 3 and Issue 4)
Alien Buddha Zine #59 (Feb., 2024)
Glass: A Journal of the Arts (Forthcoming 2024)
Haiku/senryu Commentary
Out Friday, 27th of January 2023.
our silence the b(end) of the river
In the “The Shape of Things to Come,” an essay now known for introducing the term ‘monoku’ to enthusiasts of micro-poetry, Jim Kacian suggests that we should consider monostich haiku as “gems” cut in such a way that every slight edge and “turn” of the text can be said to “catch the light a bit differently,” with every “facet contain[ing] its own inherent gleams and prismatic effects” (2012: 47). “[O]ur silence” is an example of such a ‘gem’. It is a monoku with constituent parts that gleam and glisten seemingly anew with each reading, offering its readers a richer poetic experience every time they return to share in this quiet moment at the river’s “b(end)” … Continued HERE.
Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu (Spring 2021)
Commentary on “Exaggeration” in haiku/senryu and Angela Terry’s:
creek song …
the stories
only rocks know
For me, to use exaggeration in the writing of haiku is to employ a technique of forced perspective to help poetically capture what we — as haiku poets — refer to as the ‘haiku moment’, using hyberbolic imagery and various other poetic devices to represent, in heightened terms, that instance of awe which we wish to share with our readers. If Ben Okri is right to suggest that “haiku combines quantum essence with cultural force,”[1] it is my belief that exaggeration consequently offers us a means to access and represent more fully the ‘quantum mechanics’ of the haiku moment, which is to say … Continued HERE.
A few sample verses of his haiku/senryu …
leaky faucet –
my midnight metronome
off count
– Acorn, Spring 2021
children build castles
as sandpipers gamble
with the tide
– Blithe Spirit, Nov. 2020
silent ripples —
the waves the koi make
tending their lilies
–bottle rockets press, Summer 2021
on a still lake,
a reflection —
one crane,
now two
— Poetry Pea, Jan./Feb. 2021
winter storm –
the forest fills
with snowballs
– Modern Haiku, 52:2
cornflowers —
another thin blue line
divides the garden
– Haiku in Action,
Nick Virgilio Haiku Assoc.
sand dune –
the wind becomes
topographic
– Haiku Dialogue,
The Haiku Foundation, July 14