Two haiku today, posted separately. They were written on the fly to demonstrate the way a haiku should say nothing but show everything. Here’s the first of the two.

electric willow

long leaf branches flail
howling twisted shadows stark
against the door frame

Treatises are better suited to poetic forms that grant space for explication. Of course, there are the rare haiku maxims that lodge within mind and recycle there almost indefinitely. But still, even those are usually in image form, avoiding overt exposition. And those maxim haiku are probably not really haiku anyway, but successful aphorisms.

Is it showing that I have a fever? Day three. I’m getting a bit tired of the dizzy delirium.

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