Saturday, 20 July 2019

New York sequence

Times Square
a busker
plays Summertime
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Central Park jogger 
on his phone
doing a deal
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Central Park
she takes her boobs out
for a jog
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Natural History Museum
the past
captured
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New York subway
ghost trains
passing overhead
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42nd St
rough sleepers
waiting for a miracle
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in hushed tones
the priest
hearing Confessions
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New York heatwave
only the breeze moving 
on 7th Avenue

Published (2020) 30th Anniversary British Haiku Society Members' Haiku Anthology City page 41
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Museum of Sex
so
that’s where it went!

Published (2019) Failed Haiku Volume 4, Issue 45, page 86
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gracing the table
a Christian couple
hold hands in Starbucks
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45th St
a half eaten pretzel
on the sidewalk
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Liberty Island
freedom takes the shape
of a butterfly
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early morning 
New York goes to work
with a stern face
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street vendor
one toy dog
running away
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Manhattan bookstore
reading
between the lines
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Ellis Island
tourists queuing
to get in
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on the sidewalk
a homeless man
joins the gum dots

Published (2019) by Failed Haiku Volume 4 Issue 45 page 86 
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The Guggenheim
ideas spiral
out of control
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five minutes
until the bookstore opens
time stands still
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correction bus
siren wailing
a euphemism drives past
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New York NY
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Washington DC

slow service
I read the menu
...again
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Arlington Cemetery
a squirrel
digs up the past
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Washington heatwave
emerging
from the Metro
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on my DC map
an ant strolls
up the National Mall
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Baltimore backstreet
the American dream
some blocks away
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Philadelphia slums
not
living the dream
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Washington DC
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New York NY

the Big Apple
preparing
for another bite
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I wandered 
lonely
in a crowd
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buttocks quivering
she freewheels past
on the cobblestones
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New York
even the pigeons
got attitude

Published (2019) by Failed Haiku Volume 4 Issue 45 page 86
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