Sleep on Horseback

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Haiku's Compressed Sensory Snapshot

This poem is a haiku that compresses a travel scene into three stark images. Its brief form forces the reader to join suggested associations—sleeping on horseback, a distant moonlike memory, and the steam from roasting tea—so impressions replace explicit explanation. The economy of language creates a suspended, dreamlike moment where motion and domestic warmth coexist, inviting reflection on transience and the mingling of wakefulness and sleep.