Archive (Page 6) • Hi-Q • Buttondown

Hi-Q: red/yellow

the regulation of footfall wet towel

a blues aspiring to the medium the feathers fly in — inspiration for this one

Hi-Q: door to door

ignoring the pitch for the chirps the sales intern continues on the haibun

Hi-Q: milk lottery

a series of disjointed images car window —— radio wave space sculptures

incongruous matter of miles the human touch

Hi-Q: trucks and rocks

rock patch amongst the grass one seater work trucks —— recommendation: mountains

Hi-Q: old thing?

throw: bones, hands, snake eyes divination and distancing

nursery koan nonsense everything you ever wanted to know about lightning bugs aka fireflies aka sparklebutts aka disco asses

a mythic nuisance perched on the wire dragonfly

Hi-Q: close heat

a physical presence the heat and its effects

Hi-Q: heat dome

thunder then everything quiets the wait the return — never lock your doors (a play)

accidental techno afternoon before the critters come out this essay about poetry readings

Hi-Q: anthroplasticene

day-glo shark fin soup of humidity —- washing the dishes: ars poetica

Hi-Q: cockroaching

a more surprising sight outdoors the cockroach

Hi-Q: skittering slack

stop start slide a day passes this poetic missive from neko case toying with an idea: would you like to hear some of the background on how this "haiku" came...

Hi-Q: the tomato

gradient of ripening the fruit of summer on the vine punk show posters

Hi-Q: gentle rain

the white noise of rain and low light a hint from nature these raw haiku

Hi-Q: edge of thunder

green leaves bluegrass summer rain

Hi-Q: spread eagle

mad dash to a weedy bank jumping a rubicon of litter, leaves

Hi-Q: looking sky

a canvas for our eyes to be the brains they are easily fooled a still life that is anything but still by c.d. wright

hoping for an escape at the end of the loop this absurdist comic poem by stevie smith

Hi-Q: monochrome memories

words anchoring into memory like tides forgot to mention that i found the poem recommended in yesterday’s Hi-Q via the poetry off the shelf podcast

Hi-Q: flowers filled

flowers: the peak of life flowers: symbols of its opposite burning haibun by torrin a. greathouse (it’s a heavy one)

Hi-Q: woodland techno

summer night club pulse from the critters —- three sneezes filling the gas tank haiku by john stevenson from his book quiet enough

Hi-Q: impermanence

luxury of a bubble in summer air the moment

Hi-Q: red things

drops of red amongst the leaves blood amongst so many emeralds

Hi-Q: dead flowers

blooms amongst the rot a metaphor? keeping the smoke hole open favorite line: but do they grow corn on your tongue when you speak them?

Hi-Q: fool’s gold

fireflies, like gold chasing the glimmer (crow eyed man) —- It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is...

Hi-Q: sun flare

gathering bits like a bowerbird in the river of time the color of dirt in sun weeds & flowers clouds across the hand haiku by marcia arrieta in ant ant ant...

Hi-Q: you wasn't

biscuit plays chicken grease chicken liver brick wall not waving but drowning by stevie smith (a poem)

Hi-Q: late fireworks

celebrating freedom by simulating war zones this playlist of wild experimental radio art

Hi-Q: sun drops

the bob and the weave of celestial supernovas on the wing bubbles / scattering / children (a haiku by james schlett)

fire[flies / works]: explosions and the sound of america (blues) —- july 4th thoughts from patti smith and some from another smith

Hi-Q: water’s high

the water’s in the wind the leaves jump in ripple ride the lake is high the water’s in the wind the leaves drift in breezy sky the clouds float by the...

words eroded away to the texture of decay

Hi-Q: rainbow prints

prism smears the windows/walls/wood planks with it’s rgb refractions openstreetmap haiku

Hi-Q: melodic bath

seeking: cheap relaxtion inquire within this conversation with poet morgan parker (and her book magical negro)

Hi-Q: ominous nimbus

the sun makes the storm clouds darker in the pause these thoughts on poetry

swerve instinct coils but just litter not even a bug

Hi-Q: old bucket

the creatures of a more humid variety, and the pond… missing the poems of aja monet

Hi-Q: fog tower

ink wash tower tree line fog —- days by philip larkin (poem)

Hi-Q: contravene

a step avoided observation rewarded hidden wonder a wild, experimental country song (almost like beckett and cage teamed up to create a short audio story...

Hi-Q: woodpecker & crow

a morning of wings and songs and violence we typically absent from our metaphors a morning for the birds a new poem by ocean vuong

Hi-Q: broken hinges

restructuring the restriction becomes the structure a look at small publishing through the lens of an experimental poetry zine i really wish i could have...

Hi-Q: the perfume

summer rain afterwards a heaviness puddles like the memory be drunk (a poem by charles baudelaire)

Hi-Q: gathering

this is the type of poem where embracing one of two constraints can lead to very different vibes as minimal as possible like above, or strict syllable...

Hi-Q: zodiac metal rooster

fragments of memory & meter & the wash of time a playlist for your solstice (on spotify)

Hi-Q: tropical depression

mother nature fronts a feeling with the cleanse fun, in-browser pattern generator

a knee lifted the tailfeathers are watching

Hi-Q: chicken hop

free range junior dinosaurs and across the street —- the prose poem by campbell mcgrath