helpless insane nights
returning and cowering
people distant, small
From words on page 80 of The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz, 1972/1976/2022).
... and occasional Tanka... and Haibun. Started after a competition on the unbound.co.uk blog (see #1 and #2). Mostly actually senryu, I think. This year attempting to publish a Haiku every day - 365 Haiku a Day. For good or for ill, I always aim to stick rigidly to a 5-7-5 structure - forgive me if I have counted the syllables wrong, often they are how I have said, or thought, them in my head rather than their official number.
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