How are Y'all?

At the Diary Hollow Writers' Colony in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, I met new writer friends, most from the south.  The y'all's were flying and they embedded in my porous brain. I wondered if they would let me back across the border. 

One participant, Pat Laster, wrote:  I wrote a cinquain (2-4-6-8-2 syllables) just now about.... Here it is:

 She Surprised Herself

After
only one week
in the Ozarks,
our friend,
a writer from Ontario,
said 'y'all'.

 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright  style house where I had a small suite at the Dairy Hollw Writers' Colony. (photo Joan Baril)