Winter Garden

Winter Garden - form Summary

Haiku Compresses Season and Sound

This poem is a haiku that uses extreme brevity and image juxtaposition to freeze a single seasonal moment. In three lines it sets a winter garden, a moon reduced to a thin thread, and the sound of insects. The form’s economy compresses visual and auditory details into one distilled instant, inviting readers to hold the contrasting sensations together without explicit explanation. The poem’s power comes from this compressed, suggestive snapshot.