summer street
a boy rides a wheelie
out of sight

 

 

(Originally appeared in Frogpond 42: 2)

 

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Mark Dailey

Mark Dailey is a Cultural Anthropology & Asian Studies professor. He rediscovered haiku in 2014, with publications in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Heron's Nest, and Acorn. Mark lives in Arizona after many years in rural Vermont.

3 thoughts on “”

  1. That 'out of sight' really makes the haiku.

    I've become a bit of a sucker for alliteration, so opening line and last line works running alongside that middle line.

    Brilliant!
    .
    .
    down side streets –
    gulls turning the sky
    in and out

    Alan Summers
    Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years
    ed. Jim Kacian, Allan Burns & Philip Rowland
    (W. W. Norton & Company 2013)

  2. Thank you, Alan! And, I owe an apology to tinywords, as I have just realized I submitted this haiku to two places (who both chose to publish it). It was unintentional, and I apologize for my sloppy oversight.

    1. Thanks Mark, and to Dylan, for rescuing my comment I posted several days ago.

      I doubt there are many people who haven't innocently double submitted! :-)

      Great to see it here, as well as at Frogpond, congratulations, and glad Dylan and his wonderful team of editors took it!

      Alan
      Call of the Page

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