mom’s weekend away
dad cooks
our eggs “Navy style”

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best friend’s girl
I taste the nicotine
on her tongue

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black sheep
on the ship’s manifest
grandpa’s name

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late night revisions . . .
my haiku drifts
into senryu

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New Year’s Eve —
the first firework
wakes the cat

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quiet night in
he balances a beer can
on his belly