"Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet" —hay(na)ku experiment by L. D. Cervantes

Hey all,

I just finished my abecedarian hay(na)ku suite. I don't know how long I'll leave them up there. You can print them up and make your own dam book, that is, a backed up river of a long poem into some kind of reservoir: a meditation on (what else?) love, and consequent consequences. Each letter is a character which represents something; there are clues scattered throughout as they were revealed to me. Kinda like weegee board poetry, the Spirits spelling it out for me as I tell, telling me their poems.

Hey, it's late.

If you print them out, you could use my Amazon pay system to throw me a few bucks, as did Eduardo Corral (thanks!) which enabled me to buy the cartridge to print them out for myself; or, send me your book. Yeah.

This suite will most likely appear in my new book, now nearly complete, entitled Una poca de gracia/ Bit of Grace, poemas y antipoemas de amor.

Buen provecho!


~ Lorna Dee Cervantes
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Abecedarian Hay(na)ku Experiment:

"Towards A: New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"B Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"C-ing Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet to D"

"Towards E's New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"Towards An Effin' New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"Towards, G, A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"Towards H's New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"Towards the Alpha bet's New Beginning of I"

"Towards J's New Beginning of the Alpha bet Towards D"

"O', 'K Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"Towards L: A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"Towards M's Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"N' Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"O, Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet!"

"Towards P, A New, Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"The Q — Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"R U Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet?"

"S According To A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet To A T"

"Towards U, A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"V! Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"Towards W — A New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

"Towards X Beginning, Anew, the Alpha bet"

"Y Towards A New Beginning of the Alpha bet?"

"Towards Z New Beginning of the Alpha bet"

* It was one-a-day, folks! August 15 - September 9, 2005.
more hay(na)ku at Eileen Tabio's, inventor of hay(na)ku form (1/2/3 word tercets) & at Didi Menéndez' group blog, Café Café. Go there to read my comments to Pris regarding this suite.