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
                              
  
  
Preview piece: stock photo - Gloria Graham