Haiku!

I haven't been able to write anything but haiku the last few weeks. Even if I begin some elaborate narrative that stretches for pages, ultimately it seems to dwindle down and find its perfect expression in a haiku.

Here's one of my favourite by Issa:

Naked

on a naked horse

in pouring rain!

It's so wonderfully exuberant! Anyway, many of the ones I've been writing seem to be in dialogue with vermin. Here's one:

Kitchen rat,

stay in the kitchen -

my bed is full tonight.