Although we’re promised that the record-breaking heat streak will end this week, we couldn’t help but ask entrants to the Denver Post $25 Haiku Contest to contemplate the outdoor temperatures. All of the entries were blazing hot, but we thought the verse by Tracy Wohlgenant of Denver just smoked the competition:
My car is a kiln
I use oven mitts to steer
Arriving red-faced.
Read more haiku at . You can also go to . to have The Haiku Guy, our avatar of verse, read aloud to you. If it all makes you feel like you’ve got something to say in a 5-7-5 poetry form, enter a one-stanza haiku at lifestyle@ denver . or file it at . Don’t forget to include your name and hometown. Our favorite wins a $25 gift certificate to the Tattered Cover Book Store.
This week’s topic is:
school.
The deadline is midnight Thursday. Good luck, and start writing.
