Urbanicana
Pravat Kumar Padhy (Braided Haiku; Pattern:
1-2-1-3-3)
Colleen M. Farrelly (Prose)
A cloudless sky cooks cracked concrete where neighborhood girls skip Double Dutch. Gray buildings abut gray parking lots, treeless until a patch of park reclaimed by residents. A respite from honking horns and city smog.
a caterpillar into the spring morning
on the garden path
I walk at a slow pace
maiden flight of a butterfly by the breeze of
colors
a caterpillar
on the garden path
maiden flight of a butterfly
into the spring morning
I walk at a slow pace
by the breeze of colours
Note: Braided Haiku is a new poetic form framed as two stand-alone three-line haiku: one in italics and the other in plain text, composed from a 4-line micropoem consisting of two monoku: one at the top and one at the bottom, with a two-liner in between. Braided Haiku-Prose is a hybrid form combining prose with braided haiku. Pravat Kumar Padhy introduces the new form. The original essay “Braided Haiku: Shaping Meandering Thoughts“ can be found online: Frogpond, 47:2 Spring/Summer 2024.
Credit: Fugu Soup, Issue
One , Inaugural Issue 2026 (Ed. Stephen Toft)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_V8bIuvqHZE1pfosot4xqSgck09q8OT_/view
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