In the Dark Haiku Matching Contest • Spring 2006

a power outage
envelopes
the windowless room

resetting the breaker
a cobweb
brushes my forehead

dying campfire
the bugs
now chirping

peeling my skin
off of his
even the moon sweats

 

 

 

top quarter champion =

 

 

top half champion =

 

bottom quarter champion =

 

 

 

a midnight cloud
obscures the moon
and the path ahead

a starless sky
I find my way home
by memory

the crescent moon
above the tracks
and the willows

illuminated skin
the curve of your back
follows the moon

 

 

top half champion =

 

 

grand champion =

 

bottom half champion =

 

shadows suppress
the bright colors
caressing the corner

born blind,
he imagines
what the colors are like

blinded
by the blackness
of a new moon

shadows attack
as the clouds swallow
the sun

 

 

 

top quarter champion =

 

 

bottom half champion =

 

bottom quarter champion =

 

 

 

midnight blue
as my eyes adjust
to the night

the slave slips away
in the night
—camouflage

I see clearly
until awaken
blackness

liquid at my feet
spilt pop
in the movie theater

© 2006, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
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