Not All Haiku Are About Nature—Especially Mine

I’m still using the 5-7-5 syllable structure, which I know is passé, but I like the constraints for now, even though they seem positively wordy by comparison. 


Dog park, 9 pm. 
Lamplit, ice cold, just us two. 
Then—the gate. Why now?

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No longer a son.
I’ll always be their son, yes.
But a son? A death.