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Haiku Club Challenge # 1 fire

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haiku suite-burning warehouse traps

by Sis Cat

I)

burning warehouse traps
revelers inside brick walls—
crematorium


II)

sun shines hot above
cold warehouse where people burned
cemetery chills


III)

after winter rains
smoke's stench remains around pyre—
do I smell cremains?


IV)

glimpsed through blasted door
charred Shiva carving rules wreck
destroy and create


V)

sputtering candles
crowd sidewalk memorial
lives extinguished


VI)

left near burnt ruins
flaming red poinsettias
Christmas without friend
 

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My haiku suite was inspired by my December 14, 2016 visit to the burned-out ruins of the Ghost Ship Warehouse in Oakland, California. Those who read my previous poem "Ghost Ship" know that on December 2, a fire killed thirty-six people during a concert. I composed my haiku suite from impressions of things I smelled, saw, and felt when I visited the memorial outside of the ruins. I intend each haiku to stand alone and work together as a group.

I photographed the interior of the warehouse.

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