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What strikes me as essential are that a haiku be: (1) brief (as long as it needs to be, as short as it can be); (2) a concatenation of words (this is, after all, a literary art, and the words of a haiku are not the experience it contains; on the other hand, the words of the haiku are another and new experience); (3) an opening (to something, though not always the same thing, but always larger than the flat description would be by itself). – Jim Kacian

a quote . . .

‘It may not make us rich or famous, but it has something that keeps calling to us, and we answer.’ –jim kacian.

a quote . . .

"this, of course, is what we, as poets who write haiku, are constantly seeking--a transparency of medium which does not distract by its presence from the greater purpose of the poem; or, as famous anecdote has it, we strive to have noticed, not the pointing finger, but the moon. -- jim kacian.