We know that many of you are already using our search engine. We know because every week, the automated server that runs it sends us a list of the top 25 or so search terms that people used. We take the list very seriously. We scrutinize it the way a tea leaf reader would focus in on the leaves in the bottom of your teacup or a prehistoric shaman might have studied entrails. It contains valuable hints to the perennial question, "What do Vibration readers want?" (Of course, there is a more direct way--more people COULD fill out our reader's survey and tell us what articles they'd like to see.)

Every now and then, however, the list of search terms is a poser and makes no sense to us whatsoever. At such times, we try to combine the terms in various ways, and they confound us by coming out as poetry. (The rule is that you only use words in the list except that you can add short filler words like the, and, is, and so on.) They're not always Haiku, though there is at least one Haiku wannabe in the examples below. They would more properly be classed as Found Poetry. Granted, they are pretty abstract, but they have a nice ring to them all the same, and we personally believe they mean something. We just don't know what.

Solstice Walnut:

Preachers' purpose:
hibiscus hormones,
Rose-breaking patterns,
Week-day spa.

Karmic Massage:

Poisonous scientific testing
Creates infertility;
Lilacs making frequent music
Benefit dreams.

On Knowing African Violet:

The black child's essence
was African violet,
her fragrance, althea
her history, blackberry.

Preachers build cases and rescue;
history books' authors contest their purpose;
small art galleries preach in their own way.

But this child's purpose
is scotch broom and potatoes,
her essence is hawthorn,
her destiny unknown.

In weaning disinterested kittens,
florescent flowers
create negative effects.
Forty mules ask reparation--
false taxes in April, 1993.

Strange, yes, but still fun. Now you try it.

Here's a sample list, the top 41 Keywords from Sunday, January 21 to Sunday January 28, 2001:

essence flower lenny desert kravitz willow industries moon astrology full green solutions disorders fireweed cerato rose sauromatum willow himalayan node

oats essences on line child honeysuckle goldenseal sleep honey issue korte wild birth sagauro February arnica addiction chamomile smoking stomach suckle stop

Have fun and send us the results. We may or may not publish them, depending on space, but we will enjoy sharing them with you.

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