I hadn’t thought about words like katatsumori. 🤣
I haven’t ever tried to write haiku in Japanese, so I hadn’t really considered how the language might constrain the writer as it sometimes does in English.
Since reading this comment two days and being taken aback by the reformatting that you did of the poem about your son’s snoring, I’ve been looking at a lot of English haiku and finding all kinds of different formatting examples.
One that I particularly liked was a single line haiku that used a double or triple space between words to make a line break. I thought that was pretty clever.
dry leaves scattered across a road is there a pattern