family plot
planks leading to a severed limb cloud cover
camo backpack mendicant among dog walkers
goat or lamb identifying meat on a bed of rice
blue star shooting across sidewalk slowly trampled
the voices of autumn: help meeeee!
god’s acre
face of facade
orange eyes unblinking
small red smears
reading in the garden
tiny child through the railing
watches me carry ice
chasing gnat in the dar
thoughts and prayers
crescent’s gotten larger
and yellowed
marble town
something has
leapt from the branch
vain barking
a family
of joggers
following suit
loitering against
ultrasonic repeller
cockroach
roller blader
doing tricks in
abandoned bandstand
jam over toast
deer for a
solid block
©️2024 Jerome Berglund All rights reserved.
Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Presence. His first full-length collections of poetry Bathtub Poems and Funny Pages were released by Setu and Meat For Tea press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Yavanika.
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