Holoku, hulaku. Hulaku -- little dances, gestures of admiration for the way words play, effervesce, coalesce. A formal haiku of 5/7/5 syllables per line is a single drop of dew on a leaf.

                                                       miro

An holoku is less formal but no less earnest. It is not confined or refined by the number of syllables but by the dimensions of a notion, a small exploration. In your log or journal let an image or a notion drift into your mind like an exquisite small cloud. Listen to its story and write down the words. You’ll learn unexpected qualities or narratives about the object or notion. Lead Pb82 enjoys being moveable type and is imprisoned and tortured to be bullets. It never had occurred to me to listen to lead.    more »