In this 16-second film by Crictor, a blow torch + hair dryer + popcorn (with brick and duct tape) makes for a curiously zen moment. We found two haiku to go with it, brilliant entries to a Popcorn Haiku contest at the Denver Post.
Show, golden kernel,
Your tender white potential.
Reveal inner bliss.
…
Explosion is birth.
Multi-lobed orbs of goodness.
Want butter on that?
Both were written by a Denver Post reader named Carol Nelson. It reminded us of our friend Tim Chegwidden’s Time Limited Mind Sharpening Practice about his exercise of regularly writing a poem in a limited amount of time. So we sat down to try writing a poem to accompany Crictor’s Popcorn. Here are three versions we wrote in our ten minutes:
Not very good but no matter. We found ourself accessing a different part of our brain as we felt our way to finding words to accompany feeling and image…
…And that expansive feeling accompanied us all day…
One hand drops the kernel
Into the torch;
The other plucks popcorn
Out of cool air!
Wonderful!