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The Prelude

Haiku of Now

By Paul StewartPublished about 5 hours ago 1 min read
By General Douglas Hamilton - Records of Sport in Southern India, by General Douglas Hamilton, 1892., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3250376

Locked in, they both are

The mongoose and the cobra

Still before the strike

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Paul Stewart

Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.

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  • Sandy Gillmanabout an hour ago

    That stillness before the strike carries so much tension.

  • A. J. Schoenfeldabout 2 hours ago

    Nice build up of tension. Confession, I was sure there was a double entendre I was missing. But when I googled it nothing blush worthy came up. Hope I'm not revealing my naivety.

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