JONATHAN POTTER is the author of House of Words (Korrektiv Press, 2010); Tulips for Elsie (Korrektiv Press, 2021); Sunrise Hexagrams (Korrektiv Press, 2022), comprising Sunrise Yin (volume 1) and Sunrise Yang (volume 2); The Sweet Spot in the Chaos (Korrektiv Press, 2025); and the chapbooks How to Move to Canada (Potstack Press, 2025) and Easy (Korrektiv Press, 2026). “Warbler,” the final poem in Easy, is a hexastich whose syllabic count is determined by the I Ching’s hexagram 19 (“Approach”), a pictogram portraying the trigram K’un (earth, “The Receptive”) above the trigram Tui (lake, “The Joyous”), with no changing lines. Jonathan divides his time between Montana (the state) and Montreal (the island) and is the sole proprietor of the Potter Poems newsletter.
I'm already a fan - delighted to see a poet whose work I know featured here.
What an interesting form. I will have to read about it. The poem is lovely. Would that we might all be like that warbler enjoying "easy days of late spring."