Redid this one, a few months later… Changing the third line to “the rapid river” is more alliterative, less literal, and not as specific. This new third line is not quite a “kiregi” (cutting word/phrase) element in the haiku (well…it’s actually a senryū), but it’s better than putting the river’s name in the poem. 🙂

Twoku:
Texture of a cliff / beside curving road above / Delaware River.
(This was the original version of the poem…)

After meeting with a client in Port Jervis, NY, I headed north to a high cliff overlooking the Delaware River, where I had paddled my canoe joyously through rapids many times in my youth…