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I'm curious to try out poetic form called doha. It is Hindi in origin and a self-contained (rhyming?) couplet, traditionally spiritual or sensual in nature. Each line is 24 syllables w/ a caesura (break) in between the first 13 syllables and the last 11 syllables. I THINK there's no limit to number of couplets. Confused enough yet? I know I am, so I'd love to see what cleverness Prosers come up with. Let's call it a #loosedoha. Pixie points for anyone who can do a sortha (inverted doha).
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MothSilk

Silk

Water flows in the Pocasset River in July,

Backward from the bay in salt-heavy currents.

Its weight flows; liquid, cold silk, across my body as

I fight the tide, admitting no deterrents.