{"id":1558,"date":"2009-01-14T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T13:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2009-01-14T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T13:28:22","slug":"new-haibun-by-jeff-winke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-haibun-by-jeff-winke\/","title":{"rendered":"New haibun by Jeff Winke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enter a Jet-Black Room<\/span>


Madness has no schedule. It can be standing at the bus<\/span>
stop, but the bus either comes or it doesn\u2019t. Madness<\/span>
may wear a trench coat \u2013 tan I think \u2013 with epaulets<\/span>
and that belt that no one knows quite what do with.<\/span>
But then again, it could be wearing a modest-length<\/span>
skirt and practical pumps. You just can\u2019t tell.<\/span>
Madness is a bit of a jokester \u2013 more sly fox than an<\/span>
actual sly fox. You can enter a jet-black room and be<\/span>
slapping the wall looking for the switch and feel a<\/span>
whoosh of warm breath in your ear, sending a shiver<\/span>
down your spine and scaring the bejesus out of you.<\/span>
That\u2019s madness having some fun. You can wait for<\/span>
madness to come. Even lay out the Welcome mat, but<\/span>
like I\u2019ve said, madness has no schedule.<\/span>

icy wind<\/span>
blinds closed to a tree limb\u2019s<\/span>
beckon<\/span>


<\/font>* <\/font>Jeffrey Winke is a haiku\/haibun poet and public relations counselor. Recent publications include That Smirking Face<\/span>, a haiku-art broadside collaboration with Matt Cipov (Milwaukee: Distant Thunder Press, 2008) and PR Idea Book: 50 Proven Tools That Really Work<\/span> (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2006). www.jeffwinke.com<\/a><\/font>
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Enter a Jet-Black RoomMadness has no schedule. It can be standing at the busstop, but the bus either comes or it doesn\u2019t. Madnessmay wear a trench coat \u2013 tan I think \u2013 with epauletsand that belt that no one knows quite what do with.But then again, it could be wearing a modest-lengthskirt and practical pumps. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}