From the collection published in 2021, The Immediate and No Sooner.
Haiku 898
11/23/20
her cankered embrace
who talks like that but it’s true
her touch shrivels you
Haiku 899
11/23/20
My last alias
How I enjoyed being her
I’m sorry she’s dead
Haiku 900
11/23/20
The landlord’s gray gaze.
The bounced rent check in his hand.
Once he was broke, too.
Tanka 225
11/23/20
gray sky and dead leaves
doves peck in the grass for seeds
the wind blusters on
a gap slips in between gusts
one slow leaf drops to the ground
The final poem is very appropriate for these windy days we are experiencing. There is a lot if implied wider narrative in the other three poems. I am especially intrigued by the narrator who is discarding aliases.
Thank you. Yes, me too, the alias one, once I thought up the poem, I did spend some time thinking about how that could actually work in a story kind of way, not to write a story, I mean, just to think how a person might string along a set of identities…