Global Haiku • Fall 2010 |
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Laura Scoville is a sophomore at Millikin University, class of 2013. She is a human services major, ethics minor, and participates in the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra. She currently works at Jimmy John’s, spending her weekends making delicious sandwiches and baking bread. She originally signed up to take a seminar on haiku because it seemed like the easiest choice, but has developed quite a fondness of reading and writing the timeless art form. She writes mainly about crazy antics in college with friends, terrible dates, living in Apartment 409, and being alive. Coffee and Cigarettes Rengay on the Mirror |
the swing’s only passenger by I don’t know how many times I’ve tried to sit down at my computer and write the perfect haiku. I even tried sitting outside on the porch, taking a walk around campus, or turning out the lights and turning up my favorite Ryan Adams album in pursuit of some divine inspiration that will channel through my fingers and compose the most sincere, raw, and emotional haiku the world has ever seen. needless to say, you probably won’t find anything extraordinarily moving or profoundly deep within these pages. They are just my attempts at taking some of the beauty I’ve seen in the world around me and putting it into three lines of words. I’m not perfect, and neither are my haiku. And I’m completely okay with that. |
church parking lot |
midnight in the park |
morning after |
October afternoon |
evening sky |
October sky |
autumn rain |
roommates gone |
broken deck |
mid August night |
rusty playground |
trespassing— |
winter park |
pressing pause |
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