White hot lust,
Fresh clean sheets of snow
Jamais vu
Notes:
This haiku is one of my many entries in an ongoing whiteboard romance between my wife and me. We often write cutesy notes on the whiteboard and see how long it takes the other to notice. It’s cheesy and juvenile, and we like it.
Jamais Vu is the opposite of Deja Vu in French. Jamais Vu is feeling that an event is novel or unfamiliar, even though you’ve experienced it many times before. It can have some negative connotations in psychology (so can Deja Vu), but I mean it here in the colloquial sense.
The poem is about love reignited – compared to the way the year’s first snow feels novel and exciting, even though we’ve experienced it many times before. There are some other double meanings and connections in the poem if you can find them.