Haiku LessonsFirst published in Bacopa Literary Review 2019, pages 132–133. The same issue also
includes the sequences “Still I Go” and “Shēngxiào.” Originally written in April
of 2013, on the road between Mt. Vernon and Everett, Washington. See also my guest posting on 15 January 2020 on the Bacopa Literary Review Editors’ Blog.
rainy season—
an adjective noun
prepositions the noun
midday heat— I verb the noun to verb my noun
empty café— another noun verbing the noun
the noun on our nouns gerunding when we verb— winter solstice
yard sale— noun enough now to verb my noun
equinox— the noun of nouns under the noun
winter night— fragment with verb participles a noun
morning haze— the adverb verbs all of my nouns
summer rain— I verb my intellectualization over nouns
army fatigues . . . she verbs me my noun under the metaphor
noun after noun after noun— church bells verb article noun
cliché— juxtaposition surreal noun
nature image— my thought about it keeps on verbing
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