*American Sentences as a poetic form was Alan Ginsberg's effort to make the American haiku. If haiku is seventeen syllables going down in Japanese text, American Sentences are seventeen syllables going across.
http://www.globalvoicesradio.org/American_Sentences_Workshop_Handout.html
Chinese Observations in American Sentences
Birdsong at the Bamboo Hotel 4 am makes for jet lag surprise.
Fat carp probe delicately dark rock crevices looking for breakfast.
Grandparents hold little emperors, turn, beam brightly, then wave "bye-bye."
Luxury style apartments, only for great personage; call today.
Ghosts cannot turn left or right, only go straight, so create obstacles.
Language is for me like mud to a pig, I wallow in it, greedy.
Millions of balconies hang laundry, flying international flags.
Elevated highway, parking lot in sky for weary travelers.
Foreigners have big noses, laugh loudly, attract attention to them.
Beverly the Beekeeper, teaches art, smiles happy, longs for Tibet.
Monks on mopeds live in the present, spirits and robes flying behind.
A dog's life is a poor one, humble symbol nonetheless mine to claim.
Transport cannot go underground, remains of ancestors block the way.
Peggy
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