This, as you can see, is no haiku. In the throes of making some decisions, I did decide to use this other form of poetry based on syllables for this week's piece. It's called a Fib, from Fibonacci. The form is that the syllables in a line must follow the Fibonacci sequence, that is, 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,etc. Each number is a combination of the two preceding numbers. The form is only about 4 years old and I love it because playing with the form is what got me into writing poetry. You can find out more about it at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
I actually wrote the poem in 2009, but I was reworking it for a class, so it's been in my head.
Somehow being at the half-way point of the Time Project seems significant to me and is leading me to think/obsess about the direction to go from here. I'm still not sure, but using a related form seemed right. Kay Dolezal
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