folio :
Contemporary Haiku
klaxons howl skyward
relentless endless summer
life’s red flags, half-mast
tension of a tritone:
Death playing the violin,
horsehair on catgut
A silence when our
world begins to bend towards
its quiet end, Zzz
Formally, I adhere to a strict syllabic 5-7-5
patterning across 3 lines; I enjoy the constraint. In terms of thematics, I deviate from the haiku tradition in
that I prefer to move away from the gentleness often associated with the form,
approaching instead from a nihilistic perspective. If nature is present, the impressions
in the work will strain against it.
Mark Laliberte is a
writer-artist-designer with an MFA from University of Guelph. He has exhibited
extensively in galleries across Canada and internationally, curates the online
experimental comics site http://4panel.ca, and edits the hybrid art/lit mag CAROUSEL. Laliberte has had pageworks,
poems and other print experiments appear in publications big and small,
including Ink Brick, POETRY, prairie
fire, subTerrain and Vallum.
Publications include BRICKBRICKBRICK
(Book*Hug, 2010) and asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther
Press, 2016). Laliberte is a member of the collaborative writing entity, MA|DE,
whose latest chapbook ZZOO is out in
October with Collusion Books. More info: marklaliberte.com + ma-de.ca
