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Introduction & Afterwords by Chuck Smythe
Photos by Ed Schmahl
A couple of friends and I have been doing weekly “social-isolation hikes” out here in the high country of Colorado (Caribou Top). Colorado in the spring, it’s wonderful! Ed Schmahl’s photos from our April 30 hike try to illustrate it, but, as Moristotle’s poems attest, if you weren’t along you can’t really get the wonder. Ed sent me the four photos that appear here with the note, “Let’s go someplace up there again!”
By Michael H. Brownstein
Ai Li is the editor of The Cherita website, and the founder of a type of poetry she calls Cherita, from the Malay word for story, or tale. A cherita poem has six lines arranged in three verses, with no title. It sort of tells a story. The main format of a cherita is 1‑2‑3: a 1‑line verse followed by a 2‑line verse, followed by a 3‑line verse. A cherita terbalik (inverted cherita) has one of the other five possible sequences of 1‑, 2‑, and 3‑line verses: 1‑3‑2, 2‑1‑3, 2‑3‑1, 3‑1‑2, or 3‑2‑1.
