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THE FOLD: An
Experimental Short Form
by Gillena Cox
Gillena Cox
created the fold form.
THE FOLD takes credibility from haiku; it shares moments which
are special simply and exactly.
Grasping the tools of juxtaposition and contrast,
THE FOLD crafts itself into a rhyming form of ELEVEN
lines—unlike its three lined haiku progenitor. There is one
rhyme continuing throughout the poem, occurring at every other
line: uneven lines rhyme. Lines ONE and Two, ELEVEN and TEN
carry the same last phrase, to form the EDGES of the FOLD. Line
ONE repeats at line FIVE which is the CREASE of the FOLD.
Why eleven lines? I was born on the eleventh day of the month.
"Mud"
is an example of the FOLD form.
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