{"id":26717,"date":"2012-02-09T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=26717"},"modified":"2012-07-11T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:21:09","slug":"%e2%80%9chaiku%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/%e2%80%9chaiku%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"James Shea\u2019s \u201cHaiku\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/orange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26729\" title=\"On Eating an Orange that is too Wet.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/orange.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/orange-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>What poem would I write today, if I had it in me? So many titles come to mind. For instance: On Eating an Orange that is Too Wet. Or: On Drinking Coffee Slowly and Finding it Cold. The poem about Failing to Own a Microwave. Poem After Weird Moon. The poem called Patience.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the name of a poem isn\u2019t a poem. Or is it? This is what James Shea\u2019s brilliant, funny poem \u201cHaiku\u201d<em> <\/em>makes me wonder. It is a breathless, cluttered, charming, and heartbreaking list of titles. The poems that follow the titles\u2014were they to exist\u2014would be spare and measured. But Shea refuses to measure himself. These unwritten poems speak of ambition and youth, and suggest a flood of feeling that won&#8217;t be contained by form. It\u2019s a series  of ghost haiku. Yet these traces of other poems, taken together, make a whole no less sufficient, no less moving, for its cobbled parts. <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Upon Kissing You After You Vomited.<br \/> Upon Walking You Home and You Pissing<br \/> in Your Pants. Upon Asking a Complete Stranger<br \/> about Our Situation. Upon Reading Issa\u2019s<br \/> Prescripts \u201cIssa in a State of Illness,\u201d<br \/> \u201cAt Being Bewildered on Waking\u201d and Realizing<br \/> the Haiku Poets Were Not So Laconic and How<br \/> Could They Be? Poem Before Dying. Poem<br \/> Shortly Before I Head to Dinner. Poem in Which<br \/> I Enter Drops of Dew Like a Man with Tiny Keys.<br \/> Hitomaro has a poem called On Seeing<br \/> the Body of a Man Lying Among the Stones<br \/> on the Island of Samine in Sanuki Province.<br \/> Kanyu\u2019s short poem is called A Poem<br \/> Shown to My Niece Sonsh\u014d on Reaching<br \/> the Barrier of the Ran After Being Relegated<br \/> to an Inferior Position. Poem Louis Aragon<br \/> Would Be Proud Of. Poem I\u2019ll Never Show You.<br \/> Poem Written in a Bugs Bunny Cartoon as the<br \/> Plane\u2019s Controls Come Off in My Hands. Poem<br \/> that Jerks Around Like a Hamster in a Bag. Bash\u014d<br \/> wrote a haiku for his students that he claimed<br \/> was his death poem. The night before<br \/> he said that for the last 20 years every poem<br \/> he had written had been his death poem. Upon<br \/> No Longer Recalling My Thoughts When I Was a Boy<br \/> Within My Father\u2019s Stare. At Being Exhausted<br \/> at Having to Explain Why Using Slang<br \/> Is More Fun Than Reading a Dictionary of Slang.<br \/> The poet Saikaku once wrote 23,500 verses<br \/> in 24 hours.  Bash\u014d saw Mt. Nikk\u014d and said,<br \/> \u201cI was filled with such awe that I hesitated<br \/> to write a poem.\u201d Upon Looking Past You<br \/> into the Mattress, into the Faces of Prior Lovers.<br \/> Upon Trying to Cultivate My Inner Life While<br \/> also Killing My Ego. On Watching<br \/> a 200 pd. Endangered Orangutan<br \/> Rape My Wife While She Shouts at Me<br \/> Not to Shoot Him. On Seeing a Bloodshot<br \/> Spanish Boy Who Was Not Even Crying He Was So Sad<br \/> and Not Even Crying He Was So Sad. Poem<br \/> in Which I Embody a Moment So Vividly, So<br \/> Succinctly, Yet Decorate It with Such Sills,<br \/> Such Elaborations. Upon Doodling Your Name<br \/> Which Became Your Face Emerging From Day-Old<br \/> Coals.  Upon Reading that Bash\u014d Believed \u201cA Haiku<br \/> Revealing 70 to 80% of Its Subject Is Good, Yet<br \/> Those Revealing 50 to 60% Will Never Bore Us.\u201d<br \/> On Finally Leaving My Attic and Hearing English<br \/> for the First Time in 20 Years and It Sounding<br \/> Like an Animal\u2019s Cry Before It Attacks. Poem<br \/> in Response to Flying all the Way to Rome<br \/> to Meet You and Being Dumped at the Airport.<br \/> Poem about the Next Two Weeks We Spent Together.<br \/> Poem as I Sit on This Curb with My Head<br \/> in My Hands. Poem After Learning the Japanese<br \/> Word for the Simultaneous Feeling of Love<br \/> and Hatred. Poem for the Mountain at the End<br \/> of My Street. Poem in Response to Some of My<br \/> Recent Poems that Seem to Have Been Written<br \/> Inside an Aquarium. On Spending a Week in Silence<br \/> at a Monastery and Not Being Allowed Pen or Paper.<br \/> On Meditating and Feeling Like I Was a Blue Flame.<br \/> On Getting Up and Scribbling Something in the Bathroom.<br \/> On Stopping at the Train Tracks and Having a Deer<br \/> Break His Head Through My Passenger Window,<br \/> Stare at Me, and Then Run Back into the Wood.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Sarah Braunstein\u2019s debut novel  is <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sweet-Relief-Missing-Children-Novel\/dp\/0393340759\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1328739048&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Sweet Relief of Missing Children<\/a><em>, published by W. W. Norton and coming out in  paperback this month. \u201cHaiku\u201d originally appeared in <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Star-Eye-James-Shea\/dp\/193420014X\">Star in the  Eye<\/a><em> (Fence Books, 2008).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What poem would I write today, if I had it in me? 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