Following up on Mike’s post about urban poetry — ever since I signed up for Twitter, I’ve been trying to think of some creative way to use it. One idea I had was posting a series of Twitter haikus.

So this morning, as I was standing in front of the Champlain Mill waiting for the bus, I opened my cell phone and sent my first Twitter haiku, from Winooski:

watching condos rise,
wood & metal touching gray
skies – an airplane flies.

Find more as I write them on my Twitter feed.

This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2008.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...