#0026 | Dawn, Dawn, burning bright

Submitted by Dawn in Portland, Oregon.

We don’t ordinarily accept pre-written haiku for inclusion on this site, but with Dawn’s submission we decided to make an exception because a haiku was actually integral to her story.

Here’s Dawn’s story:

“Um, I actually have a haiku that someone wrote for me ten years ago, not even realizing it was a haiku.

I was finishing my thesis and he left it on my desk.  I was hoping you might publish it with an image you make up?

It goes:

Dawn, Dawn burning bright
That’ll teach you to play with
nitroglycerine.”