Sun-shaft on the floor:
"Can I splash in the puddle?"
We nod, and she jumps.


That happened this morning.

Incidentally...
I've been writing stuff down since I could write stuff down. And I always enjoyed learning about and writing haiku, even in elementary school.

Does anyone else remember the cinquain? It seems kind of the black sheep of poetic forms. I remember learning haiku as a child and thinking, "This is a beautiful form, ancient and simple," and learning cinquain with its 2-4-6-8-2 syllabic scheme and having little patience for it. I recall having a clear sense that nobody really writes this way except at a desk, in a classroom, printing on tablets with upper and lower guide-lines and a dashed line through the middle.