Martin Luther King Day...
   a watermain breaks
on his boulevard

—Ed Markowski

Actually happened in 2005 on mlk boulevard
in detroit.

About the author: ed markowski lives and writes in auburn hills, michigan. his work has appeared in modern haiku, acorn, bottle rockets, and the birmingham poetry review.

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Responses to the haiku for 21 January 2008 by Ed Markowski

  1.  
    Elena
    2008-01-21 08:41:23
     

    A good one.

  2.  
    mike farley
    2008-01-21 09:24:12
     

    This one nicely resonates with me Ed - well and cleverly done.

  3.  
    P. Scott Hamilton
    2008-01-21 14:03:50
     

    It took me a while. I have a stream ...

  4.  
    peter willis
    2008-01-21 14:38:10
     

    brings to mind the water cannons and firehoses that were turned on the
    freedom marchers throughout the south.
    excellent example of allusion in poetry.

  5.  
    Reason A
    2008-01-21 20:07:20
     

    blazoned on our brains
    the day the levee broke
    in New Orleans

  6.  
    Bill Kenney
    2008-01-21 20:29:47
     

    "his highway" has its own poignancy.

  7.  
    b. m. richardson (orgbob at webtv dot net)
    2008-01-24 15:58:11
     

    sun shines
    on mlk parader--
    mud splash by speeding car

    -

    actually happens, before, after, and during the rain

  8.  
    Bill Kenney
    2008-01-25 19:21:23
     

    "highway" should of course read "boulevard." The point remains the same, and "boulevard" is, by every measure, the right word.

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