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JOHN THE
OBSCURE ™
By John Ruch
©
2010
Clumsy
Haikus on the Night of Belatedly Realizing a Painful Truth
They must have clung
to this debris through waves
On the sand their footprints part
Eating an apple, knowing
that far away in the dark
a dog is happy being walked
Learning a new language
written on the window
of a warm room with no clock
Arm in arm on a bridge
before a dark city
What did they find there?
Posted March 8, 2010.
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