ONE DOZEN ASSORTED HAIKU DONUTS by Ed Rayher
One Dozen Assorted Haiku Donuts
Price: $19
$35 for one of the 26 lettered and signed copies
Display stand
Metal storage container
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Why the Donut?
Haiku is a brief form with an eternal heart. Essential is expression within one breath, along with a tripart structure. I especially love such poems where the second line modifies the first, and the third synthesizes the second & first into an ineffable epiphany / insight / emotional response synthesis.
Built into traditional haiku is a hierarchy, both mechanical and experiential. Poems are read in a top / down sequence. However breath itself has no such hierarchy, for it is a cycle; the serpent eating its tail.
The Donut goes to the heart of haiku by making the three parts equal, without hierarchy. In that sense the Donut Haiku is a new form — one which affirms the circularity of breath and the equality of all parts. The Donut Poet is an adventurer in a new land.