spotless mirror
all her nightmares
respawn unchanged
Now let’s think about this for a moment. How would you top Shenxiu if you were Huineng? Shenxiu’s poem seems impeccable!
Imagine a scifaiku post about the first probe landing on Mars. If you then did a poem on a second probe’s crash on Mars, all you’ve done is restate the first post with minor changes. Long-time Scifaiku list members call this a cloneku.
