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Vortex, space, form
Vortex, space, form by Giacomo Balla, 1914. Photo credit: Giacomo Balla / WikiArt

Six Haiku-Shaped Puzzle Pieces

06/07/26

Can you put them together?

When people I love
die, my first recourse is rage:
How could they leave me? 

Playground shrieks of joy
hard to tell from cries of pain
torn from tender flesh

Back then, my body
did what it was told. Lately,
the gears keep slipping

Memorial Day
2026  sunset
red-white-blue-striped sky

Pure coincidence?
Of course. But pattern spotting
is what our brains do

So, in the end I’m
left with this three-legged rhyme:
We all run out of


  • Gerald Jonas is a senior editor at WhoWhatWhy and a writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, as well as other journals large and small.

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