my daughter's done me proud; i should have known that link poetry, and especially link haiku, would catch on like wildfire. and she made not only a link haiku, but almost a total one (technically a total link haiku is seventeen syllables, seventeen links)...she's only the third person that i know of who has done link poetry; the second is a friend of mine here in town. the first is yers truly. i'm sure there will be more, and i'm sure lots of it will be better than mine.

i've made a new site to collect 50-state poetry...i'm missing a few of the best ones (Iowa, for example) but there's plenty of time. some of these states will surely have volumes in one spot alone, before it's over. it's addictive, and pretty soon it'll spread to public transit.

by the way i'm not the one who invented the 'rules' for haiku (season word, no pronouns, present tense, no metaphors, you name it, somebody says you shouldn't do it) but sometimes i find myself searching for ways to actually limit myself, make it more spare, stay within seventeen pure syllables (what about words like field?), and one more: make the links straightforward, with the state or the season always in the url...(but here i am, making up another rule!)...one cool thing about link poetry is that you become a connesseur (sp?) of google images (if not a collector of your own), which is not a bad thing. linking all over the globe is good for your page rank, if not your reputation with the copyright lawyer...

mad about ohio comments? no way. but being put in the same link haiku as the dub? i don't know if i like being that kind of crazy...

here's greetings from some -a- yer
land-a-linkin' bo- bos!