I am going in

sane please help me as I fall

from narrow cliff’s edge

Artist’s Statement:

““After I finished writing a rough haiku with the wrong number of syllables, I asked myself why I wrote the word cliff at the end and what it represents. The answer was obvious: It was the edge of this character’s sanity. I realized that splitting up ‘insane’ into two words made the first line have the correct number of syllables and gave it a double meaning. The character is teetering on a narrow line between sanity and insanity and doesn’t know where the fall will lead. That’s why they’re asking for help. This poem is the last thing they can muster. ‘from narrow cliff’s edge’ has no ‘the.’ It’s a name of a place in the character’s mind.”