For our fourth contest, I have a choice of subjects:

Letters (especially their affects on their readers)
Sisters (both the Janes and the Lydias are fair game)

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Our timeline follows:

1. By Friday morning* (7th May), please send your haiku to me at pemberley.laraine@gmail.com.

2. On Friday afternoon, I post all the haiku in one post here.

3. By Sunday afternoon, please send your vote for the best haiku to me at pemberley.laraine@gmail.com

4. On Monday morning, I announce the winner.

*Morning is 8:00AM CDT, i.e., GMT -6:00

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Don't know what a haiku is? It's a seventeen-syllable, three-line poem, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third line, as follows (spoiler alert!):