Bill Coyle is another poet skilled at accomplishing things by means of a poem's brevity.
Regret
xxxHow to explain?
The wind sighs in the trees
leafing through memories
xxxof last night's rain.
And his "Aubade"--although it's twelve lines and doesn't quite make our limit--was described by the NYTimes book reviewer as a "hole in one" because it's a single sentence, with no punctuation, its line breaks doing everything that commas might otherwise do. The all-in-one-sentence delivery is another thing that only be done with the shortest of poems.
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