Moonbeams
canyon
windows
taxis
never
sleep
.I thought that was my haiku (here’s its video). I was wrong. Turns out what I wrote was a six-word story.

Basho’s haiku set the standard of five syllables in the first line, seven in the next, and five in the third. You gotta love the byzantine process of cultural appropriation which has brought an art form developed by a man who died in 1694, half-way across the planet, into a class in OpenFrameworks video art, Manhattan, and the 21st century.   Intellectual dissonance is inspiring.

Edo Manhattan
Across time, men stand and fall.
The same moon rises.

There.  That’s my haiku.  Click for the video

Peter Terezakis

Tisch School of the Arts
http://www.terezakis.com

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