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This form provides a welcome break from your normal style. Think of it like taking deep breaths and controlling your exhales.

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Thanks Stan. I started to push back in my mind against the assertion that I have a "normal" style, but now that I've written over five hundred unpunctuated and stripped-down "hexagrams" I guess I don't mind accepting that.

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Take this trip with Jonathan!

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Thanks, Paul!

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this was so beautiful Johnathan!! definitely will be returning to it :)

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Thank you, chloe!

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Wow! " In the seasonal poker game go down the highway

With all your cash pocketed in the goose down."

What an awesome line. Love it!

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Thanks Karen! I felt pretty happy about that line, too.

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Every line longing for the road, taking what comes with a drive through a lifetime. Discovering that treasure is beneath your feet - the journey, not hidden gold somewhere far away.

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Thanks, Patris. I love your soulful intelligent comments and I'm grateful to be read by you.

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I too am looking for a hidden highway, and when in the thrall of one of Jonathan's poems, I'm sure I will find it.

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Thanks Jason. Idea for a movie we might pitch to Hollywood someday: two aging white guy poets go on a wacky roadtrip in search of a hidden highway. They experience lots of weird David Lynch / Coen Bros. / Tarantino style misadventures and write many haiku along the way.

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Yes! Haiku Highway practically writes itself.

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Omg, you closed the circuit with that title!

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I am a highway, not particularly a river man.

A trip to the far reaches to recharge and reflect, cruising past bluffs that can become distractions, and the return home that seats and seals the revelations.

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Thanks, Malcolm. Interesting -- river vs highway. Much to ponder there!

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