I’m pretty obsessed with haiku. The stark simplicity is just something I find incredibly beautiful and I think that’s why I’m drawn to Japan and it’s religious/art/philosophical/food/culture. It’s a red thread that runs throughout all aspects of the country as well as throughout my own life. I’m rambling though. Haikus about spiders specifically is a project I started in 2020 but as all of you know it’s been a wild ride for everyone since 2020. Not complaining at all I’ve gotten a lot of very fulfilling work done in a lot of areas, and made some amazing progress- but this one was always coolly steeping on the back burner the entire time. It was a necessary interlude but I think the time is perfect to bring it back and start writing down my current experience with that original state of being from 2020 and put it into a proper framework. Pull the trigger as it were. I’m going to be posting all 88 haikus here once a week or so. I like to keep things fluid lol after that I’m going to have a few meetings and finally get this published. My last chapbook of poems took 3years to put together from the day I started writing to the date of its publication. So with that in mind this is still fairly on track. Writing isn’t an overnight process with me, and I know a lot of writers can relate to that. Poetry draws from experience and sometimes in the way of living experience. Then we exploit it all for art lol the twist on the general formula with some of my work is that it’s also being created as a hypersigil, as was the case of my last chapbook. I do smaller zine series in that fashion as well but each one of those are smaller and contained one time projects. The first of the actual chapbook is called Black Water in Milk Glass if you’d like to give it a look. Ots the first in a planned 3 book series. It’s available at Barnes and Noble as well as Amazon but it’s much much cheaper at Amazon. But yeah- I give you spidersdreaming001: the first in the series titled spidersdreaming. Which is wild because after I came up with that name and (started hashtagging it even) it’s been determined in a reputable study that spiders do in fact dream. Uncanny sync. #spidersdreaming https://www.instagram.com/p/CpusDVBOVwb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=