Thanksgiving creeps up
fast, like a turkey farmer
wielding a sharp axe.
November
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Tag Archives: death
Preparations
Brought in the ficus
tree. Fallen leaves fly about.
Wind whispers, “snowfall.”
Change of seasons
I forgot to bring
the jade plant inside. One
by one its fat leaves fall.
Enola Gay pilot dies 4 – sayonara
Sadako folded
a thousand paper cranes and
hoped for miracles.
Enola Gay pilot dies 3 – not his fault
My daughter asks why
I hate Paul Tibbets. He was
just doing his job.
Enola Gay pilot dies 2 – no regrets
He had no regrets
about dropping the A-bomb.
Did he have a soul?
Enola Gay pilot dies 5 – flyboy
Open the doors and
Eighty thousand lives are lost.
Helluva workday.
Enola Gay pilot dies
Paul Tibbets just went
to hell, where a black mushroom
cloud is his tombstone.
Inanimate
J spilled nail polish
remover on my mother’s
chest. I screamed, then cried.
Inheritance
I take better care
of my mother’s possessions
than of her, she’d say
a haiku a day 