bubblewrap innuendo


prime delivery

my latent desires listed

on the gift receipt


Heidi McIver/Kelly Sauvage Moyer


~


paperclip mudbath


just-finished manuscript

wine stains

camouflage the tears


Heidi McIver/Kelly Sauvage Moyer


~


fate donation


chronic illness

i gift my suffering

to the allopaths


Heidi McIver/Kelly Sauvage Moyer



~


soapstone 


tattered loofah

the jagged edges

of my heart


Heidi McIver/Kelly Sauvage Moyer



~


pheromone subsistence


third anniversary

he expresses 

the cat’s anal glands


Heidi McIver/Kelly Sauvage Moyer


~


every separate pine needle


collective fate

we form a tattered tapestry

atop the forest floor


Heidi McIver/Kelly Sauvage Moyer

G E M B U N [1-3 or 1-4] [pronounced Gem-Boon]

A Gembun is made up of either a one-word first link or anything up to one sentence, to be capped by a haiku of up to four lines.

The Gembun has to include an element of suggestion in either the opening sentence, the haiku or in both. It was created by ai li on the 12th of June 1997, inspired by Larry Kimmel’s TIBUN.