Scott Metz


Some haiku

the iris’s ear
nowhere to be found
among my contraceptives

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                              death—and a turquoise coin, tail side up. In chorus

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                                                            every door open
                                                            the pink rooms inside
                                                            the icicles

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looking out through the petroglyph
the only choice
x-rated

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                                             and reassembles its insect self on the crooked energy, on the

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                              she converts the young
                              mothers into celsius degrees cold
                              cash equations



Scott Metz is the editor of Roadrunner, and coeditor of Haiku 21: an anthology of contemporary English-language haiku (Modern Haiku Press 2011). His first collection of ku, lakes & now wolves, is forthcoming from Modern Haiku Press. He currently lives on the Oregon coast.
 
 
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