Jerome Berglund


Tattoo


kinbaku 
duty-bound
forced to amputate


quitting time the orchid finally kicks


birds and sky
Samuel transmits
a message 


small white horse
abandoned school bus


bent cactus
winterizing despite
preferences 

     *

Cherry


gourd shows back up five o’clock somewhere

departures board
saint vitus dance


ignorance is
no excuse
trap gun 


brown leaves
going back
for more liquor 


bugs under skin
returning from
a week in Florence
 


     *


the male 
               GAZE is ours finally         basement
back    in my mildewy childhood 

find all  /  imperfection
 
            Funhouse mirror’s grotesque reflection 
in this

          squeeze Out 
shall                          every drop of yell0w from me

                                 We
the          power               hold   >it<    now

                                                              beg chicken

		
                              …COWARD
















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Jerome Berglund has many haiku, senryu and tanka exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Bottle Rockets, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Frogpond, Haiku Dialogue, Haiku Seed, Japan Society, Otoliths, Poetry Pea, Scarlet Dragonfly, Synchronized Chaos, Triya, Under the Basho, Wales Haiku Journal, and the Zen Space.

 
 

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