Showing posts with label punctuation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label punctuation. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Punctuation?

shaking
the packet of seeds
asking, are you still alive?
Kiyoko Tokutomi

The way this haiku is punctuated, a person is asking the seeds a question. What if ---

shaking,
the packet of seeds asking --
are you still alive?

How does this shift your emotional response to the words?