This is my 13th poem for NaPoWriMo 2024, an American Cinquain. In the early twentieth century the American poet Adelaide Crapsey, inspired by the five-line Japanese poetic form of tanka, began to write five-line poems that followed a distinct form. This poetic form soon came to be known as an American cinquain (though it's also sometimes referred to as a Crapseian cinquain, after its creator). The American cinquain is an unrhymed, five-line poetic form defined by the number of syllables in each line�??�?�¢??the first line has two syllables, the second has four, the third six, the fourth eight, and the fifth two (2-4-6-8-2). They are typically written using iambs.

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