March 4, 2008

Hi, ’Ku

Haikus by Tonette Hartmann

Feel close to you, like
Static electricity,
Tight bicycle shorts.

Does professing your emotions leave you feeling as articulate as a Saturday morning cartoon?

Call in backup from haikuist Tonette Hartmann. Using the traditional 5-7-5 syllabic structure, the poet will craft personalized ditties for loved ones on your behalf.

Simply e-mail her with special details that might inspire (Grandma’s favorite flower or your honey’s secret pet names) and she’ll reply with heartfelt prose that you can call your own.

For a few dollars more, Hartmann will print, frame, and mail you a hard copy. If you like to keep it simple, stick to the sheet of paper, which you can tuck into a bouquet of flowers as that added little something.

Samples of her work will cut to your core and leave you feeling warm and fuzzy.

Which is a step up from hot and sticky.

Tonette Hartmann (202-595-3156 or serendipity44@gmail.com).