tinyhaiku

Notes on the form

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Short readings for a practice with long roots. Open them when curiosity calls; they never interrupt the writing page.

  1. 01What is haiku?A brief poem of attention: an image, a moment, and often a turn between things.
  2. 02Does haiku have to be 5–7–5?Why the familiar syllable pattern is useful—and why English-language haiku may take other shapes.
  3. 03KigoHow a seasonal word can place a poem within weather, memory, and a shared calendar.
  4. 04Kire and kirejiThe cut as a turn of attention—and the punctuation English haiku sometimes uses to make it felt.
  5. 05MonokuOne-line haiku, where turns and double meanings unfold inside a single current of language.