How do I love thee?

Oh you, you Chicago Bears!

Without condition.

Strong in the trenches,

with stars along the outside.

Philly, built to win.

Virginia signs off,

the last link to George Halas.

and another time.

Roads, come to an end.

Our journeys, a memory.

But new paths emerge.

Johnson’s coaching staff,

Established and impressive.

Did Bears get it right?

The search for this coach,

Inspires nothing in me.

The haikus suffer.

A season of pain

Ends in bliss at Lambeau Field.

Caleb gives me hope.

The Chicago Bears

are the only team for me.

Our time is coming.

Biography of Author

Philip Kaisary is the 2023–25 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor in Cultural Mediations and an Associate Professor in the Department of Law & Legal Studies, the Department of English Language & Literature, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture. Philip is a legal, literary, and cultural comparativist and his work brings questions of resistance and struggle to bear on legal and cultural forms, theorizes and critically appraises alternative modes of being in the world, and addresses the intersections of law, politics, and culture. He is the author of The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints (University of Virginia Press, 2014) and his next book, From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary, is forthcoming with SUNY Press. During his tenure as Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor, Philip will be leading a law and literature teaching and research project that, evoking the work of Benita Parry on postcolonial theory, is titled, “Directions and Dead Ends in the ‘Law and Literature’ Movement.” This project has as its goal the development of a materialist and worldly approach to ‘Law and Literature.’

Another season,

utterly forgettable.

Where be our sunshine?

The next coach will be,

the defining figure of

this generation.

Tomorrow: Haiku Thursday!

It’s not yet winter.

A season lies in ruins.

Dark before the dawn.

Note: This is the final week of my semester, and thus time will be a precious commodity. Since the Bears are delivering much of an effort on game days, I’m moving to haikus until this week’s game preview on Thursday.