Poetry
A Ukiah
Don’t expect them to listen
Just because it’s true
Circe was always right too
A ukiah is an inversion of the poetry form haiku which was possibly made up by Robert Ropars. Instead of the usual 5–7–5 syllabic format of haiku, ukiah uses 7–5–7 to express something meaningful…
Poetry
A senryu
Fellow Black people:
should we leave America
or wait here to die?