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.

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