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three haiku composed while falling asleep last night

I.
summer breezes:
I reach out, but
nothing is there.

II.
hello, Sir Bug!:
now just stay there,
far from me.

III.
cool and dark,
alone in bed:
I remember…

n.b.: for these haiku, I attempted to follow the rule of 17 morae rather than 17 syllables. As I’m not a natural linguist, I find the concept of morae difficult to understand, much less explain. But the broad sweeping generalizations are: syllables with a short vowel sound are one mora while those with a long vowel sound or diphthong are two morae; and the Japanese count the n-sound as its own mora when it ends the syllable. If anyone more linguistically-inclined wished to attempt further explication, I’d be delighted to learn.