Bottoms Up
by Kelly Sauvage Angel, Terri L. French, Agnes Eva
Savich, Jeff Hoagland, Tanya McDonald, Michael Dylan Welch First published in Failed Haiku #45, October 2019, page 79. Originally written on 10 August 2019 at the Haiku North America conference, in Room 302 of the Hawthorne Inn and Conference Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (after, ahem, some skinny dipping in the hotel pool). offering myself to the moon midnight swim Kelly Sauvage Angel the push and pull of her breaststroke Terri L. French longing to submerge I dangle my feet in the old pool Agnes Eva Savich beneath the surface our incidental touch Jeff Hoagland into the deep end two bodies one wake Tanya McDonald out of the darkness a camera’s flash Michael Dylan Welch |