BRAIN PHONE

February is National poetry month.

This is not a haiku, but a much older, traditional verse form in Japanese poetry called a tanka.

As you can see, it begins like a haiku, followed by a couplet of two additional lines of seven syllables each.

It does not use an ellipsis – I added that simply to emphasize the similarity and difference.

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A phone in my head

Powered by blood from my heart

so every thought

…

with my every heartbeat

my brain could send you my love.