home through hazy streets
a/c tames my t-shirt’s reek
firework smoke, sweat, DEET

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free as a firework
lonesome as a country song
independence day

This second haiku is more of a senryu. It is a reprint from 2017, a time when I still occasionally employed similes and metaphors in my haiku. In the haiku form, they are traditionally frowned upon. Ideally, one is supposed to juxtapose descriptions/observations in order to pack one’s poetic punch.

I do love similes and metaphors, though. I will save them for prose and free verse and sonnets and such.