Postmodern Haiku
Everywhere, Rising
Scurrying city--
Deep roots seeping underground,
the sound of what is.
For my Haiku I examined mainly examined the theories of Deleuze and Guattari, exploring the idea that the structure of human existence is more of a rhizome than the hierarchical tree. Within the first line I established the idea of hundreds of thousands of humans living out their existence. According to D & G, the rhizome system implies that within each human is the capability to be any sexual orientation, any race, etc. They often discussed their beliefs that--though they were heterosexual married men--they were also homosexual and transgender, but were born with tendencies for heterosexuality. The haiku explores the idea with the root image in a place where humans are rising up with a myriad of tendencies.
I concluded the haiku with a twist in sense--from sight to sound, providing a line that describes the postmodern theory that this is all there is, all there has ever been, with a break from meta narrative. The sound of the roots pushing through the earth in non-pattern, non-structures is the basis for describing the postmodern theory in my haiku.
I like it. The last line is a bit vague. I would have gone w/ something more subversive, like" "taproots crack concrete."
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