Today I Learned About Tetra-Tetraflaxagon

Today I received a tetra-tetraflaxagon haiku card, and I am in heaven.

It was for the Nengajyou postcard exchange I talked about earlier. And it had six blocks, which made it ultra nifty. The haiku was written three folds in. And it was about curtains, which plays in with the packaging. FUN!

I was going to share the postcard design I sent out, but it's nowhere near as cool as that. May as well share the haiku though.

placing the drink

on the mirrored platter

new year's eve

I had to explain it to my husband, so I guess it's not that good. I went back and forth a lot between using the word glass or drink. I wanted to show the two reflective surfaces playing with one another in a cyclical way (which plays into the whole culture of celebrating New Year's Eve). Glass seemed too vague, like, the glass what? Figurine? Eye? But drinks can be in mugs and sippy cups and styrofoam containers too. I was hoping the reader would figure out that it was a glass, because it's New Year's Eve and there are mirrored platters around. I was also hoping the phrase mirrored platters would serve as a hint. But maybe that's too fancy for haiku. I dunno.

I could have said drink glass but that seemed like too much.

Anyhoo, I'm going to spend the rest of my evening folding my own tetra-tetraflaxagons. (Hey, do you think it's just a coincidence that tetraflaxagon sorta rhymes with year of the dragon? I hope so, otherwise that dude is way too nerdy cool for me.)