Chaos
A trawler waits in harbor.
Its gillnet is entwined
haphazardly while waiting
to make the passage to sea,
where fishing crews will lower
that illusive weight
below the surface shadows—
to capture something formless
between its open spaces.
~Son Rivers 2006
SYLLABLES AND ESSENTIAL WORDS
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Those of you who are regular readers here already know that in hokku we do
not use a strict syllable count. Many writers of modern haiku still use a
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