Features
The Don Magazine Features is an archive of writing drawn from across the magazine’s issues — a place to dip in and spend some time. Take a look at the fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews that have defined Don so far. You might revisit a favorite piece or come across something you missed the first time.
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HAIKU WORD
What is the WORD on haiku? What should it be outside Japan? Season words? 5-7-5 syllables? Free verse? How about punctuation? There isn’t any in Japanese haiku – but there are kireji (‘cutting words’), which only really translate as punctuation marks – that means there’s more than 17 syllables if you insist on 5-7-5 and use punctuation.
The story of infrared photography
Colours represent only the tiny fraction of the light spectrum which is visible to humans. Beyond this range of light, we can for example find ultraviolet rays that tan our skin on the beach, or microwaves that warm up our bento in the kitchen. Infrared light is another such kind of light, named for its frequencies approximating the visible red light.