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12 February 2005: Back to the Number Poems of Pi-Oh:
I continue to like these, but after aestheriencing Pi's entire book, feel he could do more aesthetically with his form. Most of his pieces are like the first three above: amusing jokes, usually involving a pun as in the first, a simply visual onomatopoeia as in the second, or--well, a pun, again, as in the third. I want more like the final one, which I think lovely--although I haven't worked out the words to say why, yet. The fourth I included because of my great interest in the haiku. I like it, but feel something more could be done to convey hakuishness than printing "575." Maybe this one does. Certainly, it is in three parts, as most haiku are--and the decimal point seems significant, but I haven't yet figured out what it means.
I'm still new to these pieces, so clearly need to spend more time in them. In other words, don't hold me to my present obtuseness.
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