Month: Jun 2018

• Haibun and a Twiglet

  I. It’s hot. Like record-breaking hot. I want to chill my skin across cold marble. Like shortcrust pastry needs. Or submerge myself into a wave, into the sequinned imagination of a mermaid. Like a cold water fish. Like a big old lazy cod. I want to hibernate in a green grassy mirage before I falter […]

  Misky

  Jun 26, 2018

  dVerse, Poetic Forms

• Three Thoughts on a Saturday Afternoon

    Three Thoughts on a Saturday Afternoon I. As seen from Those folds and rolls Of clouds that skate The sky, a slate puzzle Fitted and tucked Jigged and jointed Like words strung Into long sentences Into a bridge from This horizon to where, I am your audience.   [inspired by dVerse “Solstice Couplets” and […]

  Misky

  Jun 23, 2018

  Poetry, Prompts

• A Freedom Haibun for dVerse

  A Last Gasp Breath I learned today that he died on Saturday. Liver cancer. He didn’t want to live in that soon-gone-body any more. Didn’t want those same wiry eyebrows that knitted together, a spiky caterpillar, when he frowned in pain. Didn’t want those same weak legs. Weak creaky knees that refused to hold his […]

  Misky

  Jun 11, 2018

  dVerse, Poetic Forms