Wrapping the Rice Cakes

Wrapping the Rice Cakes - form Summary

Haiku Captures a Single Moment

Written as a haiku, the poem uses the form's brevity to fix a single domestic instant: a woman wrapping rice cakes while tucking back her hair. The three-line concentration foregrounds sensory, physical gestures and creates immediacy without explicit explanation. The haiku's compactness invites the reader to supply context and feeling, making the ordinary act feel intimate and resonant. The poem depends on compression and implication rather than narrative resolution.