John Carley
Zips
The short poems which appear here are written to a strict form which I call the zip. This is proposed as an analogue to the Japanese haiku, but uses a form more suited to the innate phonic and semantic qualities of English. The zip employs fifteen syllables, two weak pauses and one strong. The poem is centred on the caesura.
#45
buoyed up on the rising tide
a fleet of head boards bang the wall
#67
the lambs leap up like foolish children
unaware they are sheep
#70
lost somewhere under the duvet
Cribden Hill goes back to sleep
#81
a sunlit glade scents
the strange geometry of butterflies
#82
mouth agape gawking at swifts
a greenfly wanders in aghast
John Carley mentors a Lottery-funded email workshop programme on [email protected] and would be interested in feedback on the zip form.
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