Tractors: Haiku and Baiku

WPA Posters for Indian Court

Haikus and Baikus help a writer minimize words to make an impression of a specific time and place.  It is a great exercise in being empressionistic in writing.

Mechinical as a pipefitter: he tries to fit his own experience to the tradition of his art.

-John Gardner

The Baiku is:

Stanzas of :  

8

4

2

2

It's a little different than Haiku:

5

7

5

Haiku on - 5+5 = Things to Haiku About

1. Worried blue-tint
2. notes. Dreams, sunny days fishing,  
3. for future recall.