Prickly Pear

 


weighing dark matter…

when black one thing out

begs question, what else?

 

 

alley leaf

circling my feet…

rats!

 

 

possession

is nine tenths of the law

know takers taking

 

 

slow unthawing of May

way boomers

talk about theys

 

 

house of

corrections

and misprints 

 

 

 

Bunny Ears

 

flowers log-jam

in the rock bed  

edge of waterfall

 

 

still can’t drink from tap

thankfully, may purchase

for a song

 

 

s w e e t   n o t h i n g s ~ crockpot simmering

 

 

scorpion analogy

chopper hanger-on

gets sudden urge 

 

 

s p a c e   i n v a d e r   l e n g u a   t a c o s

 

 

 

Golden Barrel



gas station fountain… pits and bits, holes and soles

 

 

no points on scoreboard

no lights on scoreboard

why is it even there

 

 

hang up the phone

and quietness sets in

this is being alone

 

 

last naan standoff —

sits untouched

cools

 

 

those who stay

and learn to live with it

Toxicity

 




terracotta head pot

 

    subtracted brain-pan

    in place of neurocranium

    green electricity

    issuing forth evokes Pallas

    and the dark mother

    their parthenogenesis

    eukaryotic organisms

    foreheads’ fertile wombs

    skull cakes

 


 

 

there is something of the game warden

 

to the sheriff – and doctor – still,

who staunchly preserves in the short term

with every intention of their masters’ future slaughter,

field dress, and apportioning of each

swaggering thrush and caribou

Jerome Berglund has many haiku, senryu and tanka exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Black and White Haiga, Blōō Outlier Journal, Bones, Bottle Rockets, Cold Moon Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Frogpond, Haiku Dialogue, Haiku Seed, Ink Pantry, Japan Society, Modern Haiku, Poetry Pea, Ribbons, Scarlet Dragonfly, Seashores, Synchronized Chaos, Time Haiku, Triya, Tsuri-dōrō, Under the Basho, Wales Haiku Journal, and the Zen Space.