![Harleys on the Susquehanna [featured]](https://allenmowery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/harleys-on-the-susquehanna-1.jpg)
Harleys on the Susquehanna [featured]
Last month my wife and I had some time sans kids to get away for our anniversary — a couple days, no plans, just taking it as it came. On a whim, we decided to stop off and ride the old Millersburg Ferry across the river. As the only car on a craft full of...![Fish Caught, Memories Made [featured series]](https://allenmowery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/2012-Trout-Fishing-8.jpg)
Fish Caught, Memories Made [featured series]
Most of the day’s catch. Never caught my limit before, but, as they continually lower the limit, it just gets easier. Ever since I was a kid (or youngin, for those of you south of the Mason Dixon line), the first day of trout has been our one consistent...
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.