tension

1.

a blue jeep zzz
through thin puddles
atop gray hardtop
an arctic frost
atop the bends
of digits
the only hint


2.
a man in a clean
pink button down oxford
sloshes back
another gin and tonic
his third
no forth
since she took off
her kangol hat
and sat two stools down

3.
the orange tabby
ninja'd out the door
from his sleek cubby
behind the radiator
after three breaths of air
his tail slithered
up, down, left and right
for a few minutes
until he shook.

4.
the camera angle
was wrong
when the bullet flared out
from the steely tip of the
dirty-harry-gun

11 seconds wondering
who was shot?

5.
300 yards along the cobble stone
left, right, left, right
and silence but for the slap
of shoe on sidewalk

by the second streetlight
the question hung
obvious like the effigy of guy hawkes
ready to burn

where's the kiss?