Summer Haiku, Morning Walk Stories

Awareness of the outside world. Scientific American: Scientists calculated how much money and lives ‘Medicare for All’ might save—it’s a lot, by Kovac, edited by Cameron, August 12, 2026.

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Stroll. Saunter. Share space.
Greenery. Cool morning. Ha!
Hard sun. Air soup. Hot!

Afterword

Once, again, this is closer to an exercise in word choice than true poetry. “Another factor to be aware of is that the misguided focus on 5-7-5 syllables in English puts excess emphasis on form, to the great detriment of content and other strategies necessary to writing haiku.” NaHaiWriMo: “Why “No 5-7-5”? I did manage two opposing ideas, if not two images, and a cutting word. Kinda. This is as close to poetic as I’m gonna get.

Re title. While I dislike perpetuating a literary misconception, part of the problem is what else to call it. Presenting a perfectly precise polysyllabic prose poem?

Onwards!
Katherine

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