Jack Kerouac, the American novelist and poet, was fascinated by the Japanese Haiku poetic form, usually involving a short poem with seventeen syllables packed into three short lines.
He adapted this form to create his own “Western Haiku” which “must be very simple, free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture, yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastoral”. I go one step further and make actual “little pictures” of what I see in Kerouac’s verses.
