Saturday Rave: I, by J W Curry.

 I think we may now have reached the natural end of this very-short-poem series. Basically, things are getting silly.

Still, here are two final examples.

Aram Saroyan produced a poem consisting of a four-legged letter m. I've no idea what he meant by it - if anything, it reminds me of a caterpillar wearing boots - but people have come up with some truly intricate and bizarre interpretations. Two of the most comprehensible are that it's about the alphabet being born (because it's an amalgamation of the letters n and m) and a variation of I'm.

Even shorter, and much easier, is J W Curry's poem, which consists of a letter i where the dot is a fingerprint.

It's arresting, and pretty, and it suggests various ideas about identity and individuality.

I really rather like it.

Word To Use Today. Um...oh dear, we're dealing in units even shorter than the words, now. Still, the one-word poem has been presented quite seriously by various poets, so I suggest we all write one of our own.

Here's mine:

lazy

The word lazy appeared in the 1500s, but so far no one's been able to summon up the energy to discover its derivation.