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Contemporary Haiku
from "Sailor, C'est L'heure”
“Sailor, C’est L’heure” is inspired by the devastating
impact of oil and plastic pollution on marine life, and David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (1990). My approach to
these haiku focuses on tactility (these poems begin in concrete space, and so
result in concrete waste), a singular image of nature, and the frisson of
surprise. But what function has surprise when we’re drowning in alarms? How do
we filter the warning from the noise? In “Sailor, C’est L’heure,” I have
embedded the warning into the haiku via code; manifesting as noise, resisting
inaction. It is time.
Rasiqra Revulva is a queer femme
writer, multimedia artist, editor, musician, performer, and SciComm advocate.
She is an editor of the climate crisis anthology Watch Your Head: A Call to Action, and one half of the experimental
electronic duo The Databats (Slice Records, Melbourne; Toronto). She has
published two chapbooks of glitch-illustrated poetry: Cephalopography (words(on)pages press, 2016), and If You Forget The Whipped Cream, You’re No
Good As A Woman (Gap Riot Press, 2018). Cephalopography
2.0 (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020) is her debut collection. Find out more at
@rasiqra_revulva, @thedatabats, and www.rasiqrarevulva.com.
