Haiku 898, 899, 900, Tanka 225

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

2 thoughts on “Haiku 898, 899, 900, Tanka 225

  1. 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…

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