#Haiku Happenings #5: Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge!

#88 Load

lonely whistle of
the night train chugging to dawn
where sparrows call spring…

they twitter in circles at
winter feeders seeking bugs

woken by silence
the hobo knows the train’s stopped
exits, hails a cab

as if still dreaming; returns
to the place he lied, grieving

coming full circle
to the place where he lost both
best friend and lover

changing his name, aging too
these things did not ease his guilt…

Sam was on duty when he saw a bent old man with weather features with a horse head cane hail a cab. How odd. Didn’t he just see one like that somewhere recently?…

©JP/dh

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