hog

i’m on the winter

side of our mattress while he

rolls in summer plumes

.

haiku

tectonic non-descript

the abject neglect

never mentioned!

caused the rift

to platonic drift

.

haiku

Ps

as if one needed one explanation for separation

refuse

girls in white dresses

lain on forest floor like bones

knuckles curled like leaves

.

haiku

fleeting

something like terror

mirrored in eyes meeting grief

brief in divorce room

.

haiku

disarming

Prince Charming was charming

until well after the wedding

and then, well, he wasn’t

at all.

The End

.

not a haiku

dis-temper

there’s a sharper out-

-line to the timbre of his

distaste of her face

.

haiku

rock-a-bye-bye

each time he smashed her

thinking she’d get softer

she got rock-harder

.

haiku

atrocities

all the things i love

wrapped up in a 5 pound note

not a boat to float

.

haïku

help i yelp

i got tangled up

in other people excuse

if i’m knot myself

.

haiku

can’t . quite . grasp

what’s the word for scared ?

of intimacy ? something ?

prevents hand-holding

.

haïku