Amy VO Maffei
is a freelance copy editor and onetime Pushcart Prize nominee obsessed with progressive rock music and the arts and crafts movement. Her poetry has been printed in publications such as terminus, The MacGuffin, and Sierra Nevada College Review. Amy’s writing deals with the individual’s connection to life and the ordinary moment, often through nature, science, and art. She lives with her husband, Rick, and son, Kai, in northern New Jersey.Jack Kerouac termed his American haiku “pop,” which I love and try to remember in writing my own haiku. Such a short poem should explode for the reader, lead the reader somewhere else, generate a reaction. Alan Watts talked about how haiku should evoke a sense of potentiality; I try for this also. I typically use a natural or simple image to show one thing and infer others -- one image that might call forth other meanings and emotions. I pay attention to the sounds of the words, the music the haiku can make, so that it might read and sound beautiful also.
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sugar sludge ring
in the small paper cup from the child’s lemonade stand |
