First published in Contemporary Haibun Online 16:1, April 2020. Originally written in August 2013. See also “Historical Haibun.”

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

                making it new
                        another poem
                about cherry blossoms