This is very likely the best haiku I will ever write. If I never write a better one then at least I wrote this one. It’s the last haiku in my “Splatter” sequence and in conversation with this great haiku by Buson:
pear blossoms
a woman reads a letter
by moonlight
I always dug that Buson haiku and was playing around and suddenly saw something. Maybe you’ll see it too.
luminous sea
a man reads a letter
by moonlight
If not, then the “luminous” can reflect and see the luminous “C” which the man both reads and reeds with flute and pen as he reeds a sea of melody and he reeds a sea of ink as he reads a sea of light and he reads a see of light as he reeds this C in both ink and air and the “C” is key and as key is luminous as all white notes and he reeds this see by moonlight and he reeds this letter “bye moonlight” as he finds one hundred ways to read a lyric “buy moonlight” and the letter is by moonlight and in moonlight and of moonlight all of which of course he buys under this crescent reflected and reflective moon.
Also along these lines is this JSF (Japanese short form) poem that uses a 3-D word. I will call these “prism haiku” for now.
bay breeze
the curl of a wavicle
across the water
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