My Summer Haiku at "Five Fleas"

So grateful to Roberta Beach Jacobson for posting my summer haiku at "Five Fleas" on the afternoon of August 11!    haikua ssp

Haiku by Bret Wooldridge

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snow globe

the barometer drops

at my approach

drop down menu

retelling my side of it

sans serif

cold snap

the puddle

installs a window

dappled sunlight

her red hair turning

on and off

diary

my cheap pen skips

a few details

Serengeti

still half in shadow

the sunlit zebra

gift wrap

the scissors glide

through snow flakes

performance review:

the supervisor misspells

"improvement"

MOMA

the rain in the painting

comes to a stop

Ford theater tour

the mirror John Wilkes Booth

straightened his tie in

blue denim sky

a contrail

unzipping it

door jamb

watching her

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d

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s

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night lobby

the escalator

dredging up darkness

glass elevator

we descend with

the snowflakes

so dangerous

it’s locked in a cage

human heart

incessant barking

at the end of the leash

haiku dogma

laundry day

bleach for the clothes

I sinned in

minor key blues

sounding slightly better

slightly out of tune

surrounded by antlers

her forest dream

shudders to an end

 

 

Bret lives on 40 acres of sagebrush in Northern Nevada. In addition to his haiku interests, he plays guitar for a country band and bumps around the desert in a 4WD.

 

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