staring together,
you try rinsing clean the sink
and got strange wrinkles
From words on page 118 of House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins, 2023/1990).
... 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.
staring together,
you try rinsing clean the sink
and got strange wrinkles
From words on page 118 of House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins, 2023/1990).