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Patricia Skinner of Denver, winner of The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku contest this week, she wrote this on the topic of “vampires”:
Predators roaming
The sky darkens like a shroud
Creatures of the night
Read more haiku at . You also can go to to have The Haiku Guy, our avatar of verse, read aloud. If you’ve got something to say in a 5-7-5 poetry form, enter a one- stanza haiku at lifestyle@denverpost.com 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: tricks
The deadline is midnight Thursday.

