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I like this one, especially the "air" - "pour" - "wet" associations.
The imagery*  is wonderful.

It makes me happy to see someone else interested in creating poems
incorporating visual elements. Why don't people do this more often?
Can never figure this one out, seems a natural.

Haiku have traditionally been incorporated into paintings:

There's even a name for it: (from Wiki)

Haiga is a style of Japanese painting typically painted by haiku poets, and often accompanied
by a haiku poem. Like the poetic form, haiga is based on simple, yet often profound, observations
of the everyday world. Stephen Addiss points out that "since they are both created with the same
brush and ink, adding an image to a haiku poem was [...] a natural activity."

Buson incorporated this haiku of his:

a Little Cuckoo
across
a Hydrangea

into this painting of his:

*Of course I'm biased, as my poems almost always contain photos/graphics.

Nice pic! WoW people still use polaroids.

My sister still does. She has a Polaroid SX-70 camera and uses newly-manufactured
film made by a company called "The-Impossible-Project". Their B+W film (they also
make color) is deep, rich, beautiful stuff. They make an attachment so you can make
prints from an IPhone, AND they make 8x10 film! I have seen examples of the original
Polaroid 8x10 film in photographic galleries. The detail is finer than your eye could ever
hope to see.

I agree. I've loved photography like...forever. When I discovered haiku last month and realized that it was a verbal photograph, it just seemed a natural fit. I'm slowly getting the haiku thing down, thanks to all the good critiques I've been getting. I'm looking forward to being able to produce good haiga as time goes by as that seems to be most natural to me. Thanks a bunch for the kind words!