It's about what you would expect—a bit windy.

The inverted bowl of the Space Needle curls away and down from you in all directions.

Read the Wired article.

This contest is inspired by WelchM (Michael Dylan Welch), a poet and haiku scholar whom your word-game hosts met in the Writers' Club on AOL. He is the editor of Woodnotes, a quarterly haiku and senryu magazine...

Senryu, as WelchM has explained to us, is a form of poetry very like haiku but with a dash of humorous irony. Such a poem typically has three lines and a total of about 10 to 14 syllables in no fixed arrangement. Rhymes and titles are not necessary and in fact are likely to be counterproductive. The purpose is to convey an image, one with a wryly ironic twist...