Five, seven & five
Less is more when you count them.
The hand holds the words.
We manically count
syllables to make haiku
refrigerators!
Left-handed counter-
feit words to convey meaning—
syllabic hand jive.
Versus dexterous:
all water under the bridge
is a sinister current.
Counting syllables
is silly; Japanese count
words, not syllables.
Anglo Saxon words
paint a much broader canvas
than Latinate ones.
Polysyllabic
words too cumbersome to count
English albatross.
To sleep bilingual
with hands signing in ASL
a transmission of tongues.
Archipelago
of words tangles the eyeteeth
of haiku thought poems.
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