Because of their brevity word placemnt in a Haiku can take on even greater importance then in other forms of poetry. This idea intigues me, so as a poetic excercise I attempted to rearrange the words in some verses, and here is one that I came up with.
A verse from the text book Poetic Form by Ethridge Knight (page 157) goes as follows:
Eastern guard tower
glints in sunset; convicts rest
like lizards on rocks.
A little switcharoo and you get:
Convicts glint in east-
ern tower; guards rest on rocks
like sunset lizards.
Perhaps this rearrangment mirriors a transposition of placements for the convicts? Or maybe it's just nonsense. You be the judge.
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