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hypnogogs

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Literature Text

Holding her paintbrush
Yearning, the poet pauses
Poised, expecting colour
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Nothing can prepare
One artist for the painful
Grasp of another's artform
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Only white canvas
Gleaming, dawn surrenders
Sleepless nights ending
an acrostic haiku collaboration with =mrnakes

He set up the acrostic: hypnogogs
and the liaisons: phenomenon and gesso.

I wrote the haiku/senryu pieces.

Hypnogogs are people in a state between waking and sleeping. Gesso is a preparation used by painters and sculptors to get their chosen surface ready to be painted or stained.

Here's a tutorial on the form: [link]
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