Poetic Shift

this is how the world ends —

haiku need not be 5-7-5,

there’s no reason to rhyme

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this is how the world begins —

haiku need not be 5-7-5

there’s no reason to rhyme

Poem ©2017, Jen Payne. National Poetry Month, 17. Image: Score Without Parts (40 Drawings by Thoreau): Twelve Haiku, John Cage.