a poem in my pocket

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/17917

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chased hard by sheriff’s posse, after robbing bank,

outlaw on horseback heads for cave at split rock creek

where sioux quartzite cliffs rise along stony banks and

narrow at devil’s gulch…chasm where jesse james jumped!

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The Imayo* – Japanese form structure:

– 4 lines (8 lines permissible)
– 12 syllables per line divided as 7/5
– make a pause space between the 7 and 5 syllables
– use comma, caesura or kireji (cutting word) as the pause
– no rhymes, no meter, no end of line pauses
– the whole should flow together as though one long sentence

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Link to MTB with Laura Bloomsbury at dVerse Poets pub.