It happens over
coffee, one stunned, the other
already elsewhere.
Ending
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Category Archives: haiku
Realization
She woke up seeing
him in a different light
flame sputtering out.
Facebook status after the breakup
“There’s always rain at
the most appropriate times
in my life,” he wrote.
Stiff spring breeze
Tightly furled like clenched
fists, tentative red-tipped buds
sway on bare branches.
Book club procrastinator
Meeting tomorrow.
Haven’t even opened it.
That’s life on the edge.
Because of the media
based on a poem written by M.
They say I need a
man. Chocolate. But an eye
lash curler’s enough.
original source:
I don’t need chocolate to eat or a man in my life
I just think I do
because of the media
All I really need is my eyelash curler.
Haiku diary
Complex moments break
down into vignettes when brief
words define their state.
Vaccuming
“You suck!” becomes a
delightful metaphor for
taking it all in.
Out of wedlock
for S.
Without a ring she’s
uncertain, the baby no
guarantee he’ll stay.
Not in polite company
She talks of threesomes,
abortions, things her mother-
in-law would faint at.
a haiku a day 