Wade on Birmingham http://wadeonbirmingham.com News, features and essays about Birmingham and Alabama Tue, 21 May 2013 16:44:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 before sunrise http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WadeOnBirmingham/~3/lrJVHjan4Gs/ http://wadeonbirmingham.com/2013/05/21/before-sunrise-haiku/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 16:33:55 +0000 Wade Kwon http://wadeonbirmingham.com/?p=16489 He scanned the foggy
horizon, searching for … he
wasn’t quite certain.

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she was gone. Never had a
dream seemed so lifelike.

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scoundrel, drunk, beggar, drifter,
human. Rest in peace.

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has rings where their supper bowls
held their attention.

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wait to be adopted, then
thrown in the garbage.

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a faint ticking could be heard
whenever she smiled.

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a twin, one that lubs while the
other dubs. Lub-dub.

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of waves. The moan of a train
whistle. Then, silence.

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make audiences laugh, cry
unlike latest crop.

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the unruly mane took his
seat, while the rest jawed.

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if a chef had hit it with
a flour grenade.

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air. Make it seem easy. Don’t
look away too long.

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makes me strong. I am confused,
but she guides me through.

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Night fell in droplets, as they
huddled reading verse.

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plays for coffee and change to
crowds of day people.

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higher learning rewards good
dogs with free boarding.

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Squirrels tear through the rows. Birds peck
at the black remains.

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card. Leave a card, toss a card.
Shuffle off and die.

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sat impatiently in the
swirl of cosmic night.

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mid-flight, snacking on buzzing
drones, stingers and all.

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