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  Mmmmm…. very relaxing. Why does a car wash feel like paradise? Somehow they are just so cozy….

  And I like the last line very much. A simple action breaks the descriptives in the first two lines. Yes, I am still thinking a lot about how breaks work. If I could make my list of things I want to focus on this next year with haiku, that would be one of them.

  Comment by Alison — January 18, 2010 @ 8:48 am

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  I’m glad you got the car wash. I was worried whether or not readers would get where I was. I’ve tried to write a car wash haiku a number of times and have never been happy with what I came up with.

  The first line of this one came to me while in the car wash yesterday. I changed the last line several times though. It was, at different times…

  – road salt disappears (as a seasonal reference)

  – it’s soothing in here (as it is very soothing in the car wash)

  The current version (I shift to neutral) came to me in the middle of the night. Not a season reference, but I do very much like the look of this haiku. Wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.

  Comment by Kelly — January 18, 2010 @ 3:47 pm

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