Photography, Checklists, and Insomnia – Thoughts While Packing
My day is closing in, the night is upon me, my to-do list is long, and I need sleep…which sounds like a very odd thing coming from me. For some time, I have danced a vicious tango with insomnia, caught up in the throes of a love-hate passion. We have shared...
Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam
Tired of people calling 17 syllables “genius”? So am I.
In this brutally honest, occasionally unhinged episode of Perfectly Poetic, Allen Mowery finally unleashes his pent-up frustration about the most overrated poetic form of all time: the haiku. From childhood worksheet trauma to seasonal name-dropping, syllable policing, AI-generated nonsense, and the myth of Bashō’s frog — no stone (or smooth river pebble) is left unskipped.