
This is a tricky haiku constraint because VISIT is event-based rather than image-based. It can flatten into mere announcement unless the poem builds enough scene or pressure around it first. Debbie Wilson’s “Snow FLAKE on fork PRONG / My BUDDY SMITH will VISIT… / Only when snow falls” is a strong example of solving that problem: the constraint words are absorbed into a distinct little world, and VISIT becomes part of a larger conditional image rather than a simple statement of arrival. Across the set, the stronger poems give the target word a structural role — impending threat, knock at the door, rare appearance, official call — which helps the haiku stay alive under the constraint.