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Tuesday August 13th, 2019

The exercise:

Write two haiku about: gut reactions.

Back home safe.

2 comments:

  1. What kind of gut reactions inspired this prompt? Deciding, on a whim, to take the scenic route home and getting stopped by a Mountie, or discovering that a long car journey and everyone eating baked beans for breakfast was a bad idea?

    Gut reactions
    Autumn campfire nights;
    Grizzly bears stalking through woods
    Bring gut reactions

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    Rain in September,
    Penny-royal tea to halt
    All gut reactions.

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  2. Greg - loosely inspired, I suppose, by avoiding an accident on the highway en route home by... not a whole lot. Car in front of me hit the car in front of them, who had slammed on the brakes for no good reason.

    I don't really remember the details much, so I guess I reacted on instinct? Gut reaction? Either way, we escaped unscratched.

    And yeah, grizzly bears arriving at a campsite would trigger a gut reaction or two, I should think.

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