Perched in the Land of Trees

tree leaning into tree--
an old couple negotiate
the rainy sidewalk

In Speculation #241, American haikuist Robert Spiess said that one of the 'lesser reasons' haiku are so brief is that in them inheres the truth that if words are good, words nevertheless are a rupture of silence which is better still."

Of course, all writing--drama, novels, songs--involves the breaking and returning to silence, but in poems as short as haiku, the silences weigh so much more than in longer pieces.

I love the vivid word rupture; it originally meant to break but from a bursting inside. And it's related to the words abrupt, corrupt and interrupt. However, interrupting the silence does not convey the abrupt change from silence to sound that rupture gives.