Six Haiku for Summer
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Unyielding clear light
Angry sun beats alley rat
Into dark shadows
Waffle cone, point up
Melting chocolate ice cream
Concrete stained with tears
Laughing, mud-caked child
Huge bite of juicy melon
Smiling cheeks dripping
Sparrow feeds her chicks
Nest atop tilted ladder
Foreman thinks of home
Speckled willow shade
Sleeping woman, book on chest
Sunburnt arms and face
Cool and thin dusk air
Stay a while, here, with me
By fireflies’ light
I’ve placed this somewhat awkward footnote to mention that Prester John Andrews, host of the Xanadu Review, had me on the show earlier this month! PJ and I had such a delightful and wide-ranging conversation that we were recently featured in the Substack Post for it. PJ’s a fantastic individual and he runs a great show. If you aren’t subscribed to him already, fix that.
As most of my fellow pseudonymous Substack Notes users already know, last month we lost Koshmarov, one of our own. Kosh was a poster’s poster, a complete maniac, constantly online, endearing, charming, unpredictable, entirely himself. I miss him dearly and remember him fondly. May he rest easy.
I always enjoy your footnotes. It’s summer on this side of the world, and I could really use some shaved ice desperately
mentions of rat torture is exactly what poetry had been missing all along. somewhere, percy shelley's ghost is foaming at the mouth.