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Haiku/Senryu Renga: HIT MAN 🔫👤

(a Jade-Pandora & Hepcat61 collaboration: contrasting call & respond)    
     
1    
I grab his pistol    
rubbing its cold steel into    
where it sends me there  
     
      she knows it’s my way—      
      hard steel in her waiting hands    
      glad she likes my gun  
     
     
2    
I wonder if it's    
loaded, thrilling even when,    
heart, I know better  
     
      she moves ev'ry part    
      considering the danger—      
      heart wants what heart wants  
     
     
3    
bitter and tartness    
sweet and savory blending,    
joining skin to skin  
     
      once tasting hot smoke    
      there's only one true path, sight    
      body, mind, motion  
     
     
4    
incognito— where    
he hides on the run from, and    
intensely returns  
     
      quickly to that room    
      when to enter and retreat    
      deep in her hideout    
     
     
5    
what kind of hit man    
leaves such evidence around    
oozing and unclaimed  
     
      she’s better at this—      
      the set-up and the take-down    
      we’ll need the “cleaner”  
     
     
6    
what lover leaves me    
hanging, suspended, waiting    
for one digit's worth  
     
      shots ring in the dark—      
      don’t wait to see body twitch    
      always on the run    
     
     
7    
his averted eyes    
speak volumes of his nature    
leaving fingerprints  
     
     the crime scene body    
     I look away but remain—      
     hope she brought the cuffs  
   
 
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Preview piece: stock photo - Gloria Graham    
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Written by Jade-Pandora (jade tiger)
Published | Edited 20th Jan 2016
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