Dynamic Poetry · The Old Pond · word drift · Genesis 4

The Old Pond, Cain and Abel

Two brothers, two fires, one field. The story of Cain and Abel, told without ever leaving Bashō’s haiku. Read again from the top.


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One whole word changes at each step. Every version keeps the 5–7–5 of the original and reads as a sentence; the story is told only by what the words become. The last version leads back into the first. The last version leads straight back into the first.