Wayne F. Burke

"...under fierce blue clouds thick as pillows..."

"...when men and women with cameras and microphones come to the door..."

"...in the bark of early morning..."

"...far from any care..."

"...so beautiful sparkling blue and electric-green..."

"...the road a sheet of ice..."

"...is whatever he's got creeping underneath my door?.."

"...I laughed at them, the wind in my face..."

"...I never knew I had..."

"...a wasp stuck its triangular head out..."

"...the blood red sun that scorched the pavement...

"...sizzled like bacon on the grill..."

" The important thing is to not die...

"...only more of the same cold rain..."

"6:08 AM bird peeps from meadows of fire..."

"...a cold wind, blowing gray scrum of clouds..."

"...a million specks of light, two million divots of shadow..."

"...purling and deep from snow-melt..."

"...stuck in a failure of imagination..."

"...demented saga greater than Beowulf..."

"Ponce de Leon went looking for the Fountain of Youth..."

"...toward a smooth ending on the tarmac of dreams..."

"...she will not rise until noon..."

"...the window shade down so I can not see out..."

"...another voice selling something I do not want..."

"...long frizzy hair, hippy garb, granny glasses..."

"... determined to drive me insane then kill me..."

"the echo of a shout in the bedroom..."

"met an old buddy on the street..."

"...the "Argonaut of the Spirit" had no more to say..."

"we cosmonauts are on sacred ground..."

"...a final message from the front, a last hurrah..."

"...one AM, and pretty sure I will never sleep again..."

"...a sentence 3 pages in length..."

"...spaceship earth, or stay within these white walls..."

"...he jabbers at me in French..."

"...true Dionysian, letting go resentments and hurts..."

"...cut, he quit cold turkey..."

"...how about that taxing Taxcala chapter?!.."

"word comes down from the North..."

"...uneasy sleep beside the ocean..."

...I've kept mostly to myself..."

'..."I am Me," Ginsberg writes...'

"...dry leaves slither along the pavement..."

"...I think I have one..."

"...Got some gall I think..."

"...death came floundering down the line..."

"...at HENRY’S diner in the aftermath of Covid..."

"...Like a foot thirty years barely beating..."

"...rain bullets raking the deck windows..."

"...got to got to sweep the floor make some money..."

"...searching for Truth, gathered in forums..."

"...Oh, I'd forgot-- because I do not care..."

"...report immediately to the auditorium to read the poem..."

"...in the pale blue sky of dusk..."

Haiku thoughts

"...I woke to the great city, cars people, buildings..."

"... Clueless how to approach such a thing...."

"...the river glimpsed through roadside trees, the Androscoggin..."

"...having trouble catching his breath and climbing stairs..."

"...a beak-nosed craven twerp..."

"...The ocean outside the hotel window looks peaceful..."

"...I was excited, had never met an artist before..."

"...To make and drink coffee? Sit in the sun?..."

"...we kept the tank engines running all night long..."

"...none of' the rest matters..."

"...they made dandelion wine and grappa in their cellars..."

"...I see a hand swipe the plate from the table..."

"...Hey, I am paying you, man!.."

"...they laughed louder and I was embarrassed..."

"...Absence of Time means no reason to kill Time..."

"...idolaters, cannibals, emerging from holes..."

"...should have wished for..."

"they told me take a dive..."

"...like death's sentinels from the porch railing..."

"...slow-mo with snowy landscape below..."