Phaiku No. 2

Inspired by shifting borders and the broken symbols we mistake for truth.

Author’s Note:

This phaiku was initially inspired by Alfred Korzybski’s insight: “The map is not the territory.” However, it quickly evolved with recollection of a Mexican Proverb:

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”

And at this point I could not un-write what I felt in my bones.

PHAIKU No. 2

Cracked

Inspired by shifting borders and the broken symbols we mistake for truth.

parchment path unwalked
crumpled bias cracks the sky
Her truth weeps again

Cracked earth [image created by JL Tooker with ChatGPT at Canva]