Aye-aye

eyeye

***
Poet’s notes:
8/18/2018

Poetry form:  Footle

The Aye-aye is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and eyeye is one of the world's smallest poems.  I simply felt that the two needed to meet Aye to eye :)

Aye-aye | National Geographic - Wikipedia.org
“Aye-ayes can be found only on the island of Madagascar. These rare animals may not look like primates at first glance, but they are related to chimpanzees, apes, and humans.
     • Aye-ayes are the only primates thought to use echolocation to find prey
     • Aye-ayes tap a long finger on tree bark, feeling for the vibrations of 
        insect larvae."

Photo credit:  A pair of aye-ayes photographed at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Nebraska | Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Georgraphic Photo Ark

eyeye | Aram Saroyan (circa 1965-66) 
“The mid-‘60s were a good time for new ideas. “In retrospect, it was sort of a Golden Age,” says Ron Padgett, a poet who spent much of that golden age in New York with Saroyan. They’d been experimenting with “concrete” poetry, which is as much about the arrangement of words as about what they say. They were also creating minimalist poetry before such a classification existed. “There was a childlike delight in playing with words on the page,” says Padgett. One day another of Saroyan’s friends, the poet Ted Berrigan, got a look at his latest one-word poem, eyeye, on a sheet of typewriter paper. “He said, ‘What the f**** is this?’” Saroyan recalls, “which I thought was a promising response.”