Kouta has two forms, both four lines. The first has a syllable count of 7-5-7-5 :

Breath of the sea at high tide
under salt ringed clouds,
shrill cries of seagulls churlling
their scavenger's song.

The other has a count of 7-7-7-5

Southern myths of green frond palm
trees, damn my path in trying
to render the stripped fat back
of my father's lies.


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