A word from Robert Denby: 12 Haiku

Photo by John-Mark Smith: Low Angle View of Pink Flowers Against Blue Sky

The pipe built into 

the gutter starts to gurgle 

just as I jog by

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Shades of a spire

as the dawn turns the sky to

orange and purple

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Tattoo scenery 

still sprawling underneath the 

black of her nylons

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A Book of Mormon

next to the little hula 

dolls on the dashboard

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Walking her daughter

and her training wheels down the

street to DariMart

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A brick-colored brick

shattered into splinters and 

dust in the driveway

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Watching YouTube when

the algorithm thinks you're

a twelve-year-old girl

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U2 feels right at 

home in the supermarket

forty years later

***

Bookstore that leaves its

Christmas wreath up on the door

for St. Patrick's Day

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His Che Guevara

t-shirt has melded with the 

video game chair

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Twenty-seven days

without a drink.  Pot brownies

count as sober, right?

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Figures that Jesus

would come back the year Easter

falls on 4/20...