a supermarket
tiny shopping carts for kids
wash their little brains
Category: Senryu
1482r
cat at window sill
earth bows slowly east
sunrise fills her fur
1427
a lying, false spring
seducing the buds
disrobe in winter
Haibun 1
My last night. Next day I’d report for boot camp.
Wars and rumors of war, but the only matter of importance was taking off Laura’s clothes.
She, also 17, lay beside me– sweet, intelligent, scathingly funny –and crying incessantly. Hit me like a cold, cold shower.
Yes, sir, I would be the only virgin in the entire armed forces of these United States of America. Oorah! Sob.
Hooked her bra, wiped her eyes with tissue, a hug and took her home. When I got back I started putting away the Cold Duck.
Knock. Knock, knock. It was Meredith. Tall, dark and honeysome, an older woman of 20. Asking me let’s go for a drive, it’s so hot. I decide not to cry.
laughing, shifting
she becomes a stretch
of glowing moon
3 Rs
Resist
Recall
Repair
1079
she now hears me
mutter under my breath
new hearing aids
1029
I fast for lent
ramadan, too
chubby buddha
1001
garage infested
with knicknackery
online it all goes
938
given up
to a shelter
purrs still in my ear
934
on a dark road
trees and shadows
play at being children
933
tea and conversation
green stems of bamboo
in a sunlit vase
932
βbelittle me
make me smaller
till I slip away
thru the keyhole
931
he taps his way
to the crosswalk
drags a battered cart
930
evening dew
on spider webs
an array of stars
929
I’m a fly
caught by honey
what was I thinking
928
tiny footfalls
dry leaves dance
along the street
927
a new calendar
pristine ranks await
red ink and lead
926
pine branches
ablaze in gold
the moonrise
924
next four years
the bull lives
in the china shop
923
vincent motorbike
rusting in her backyard
red molly now gray
