ReadOasis Step 2 (Part 4) When writers follow Rule Two (see Part 3), haiku do not read like sentences. The reader feels a break between the fragment and the phrase. Look at these two examples. the cold wind blows and the lights in the house go on and off cold wind blows lights in the house go on and off The first example follows the short, long, short form. But it reads like a sentence. The second example cuts out the word “the” two times. The first line is “wind blows,” and this is a fragment. ...