Sporadic

So the Salutations series begins with a conceit, which is that it’s a series of letters written aloud. I started from a place where I rejected the first conceit because I’ve never saved letters. I have always written something fresh for each round of this series- writing with the idea that it’s a letter, but always crafting it fresh. This time the theme was “Transformations” and I thought it would be fun to explore the idea that someone was writing a letter to their future self about a transformation.

The problem was I had too many ideas and I wanted to use them all so I needed a way to shorten the letter. I arrived at a second conceit which was I would write them as transformative haikus.  That way I could get as many as I wanted without taking too much time.

When I read this allowed the audience to guess the transformation- but here I can’t really do that so I’ll give them to you with titles the way I wrote them.

 

Transformers

Regular Peterbilt

Uh Oh! Alien Invasion

Optimus Prime

Bonds

Talented Hitter

So many illegal drugs

Big head homerun king

Recycle

Fruit juice container

Trip to blue bin Valhalla

Now I’m a nice rug

Glass

Sands through the hourglass

With some heat, limestone and time

Sands through the hour me!

114^th congress

I’m just a bill

Who’s that? Oh Mitch McConnell

Still just a bill

Hurricane

Hot wind off Africa

Late august Caribbean sea

Hot damn I’m cat 5

Chicken

Cold naked bird

Egg dredge, flour wash, hot oil bath

MMMM great with waffles

Trump

5^th time I’m bankrupt

Russia, Fox, and lotsa yelling

First orange president

Butterfly

Weird furry worm

Chillin’ in a sweet tree sack

Woohoo butterfly