Global Haiku • Spring 2018
Dr. Randy Brooks

haiku

by
Nicole Wells

today’s hairstyle
styled
by the wind

footsteps crunch
over the corpses
another fall

half-frozen streams
kill the dreams
of would-be skaters

thawing ice
another crack
in the foundation

nervous fingers
stumble over
the zipper of his jeans

the walls might be alive
or maybe i’m
just drunk

protruding bones
smiles pull skin too tight
radiation burns

dead man
on a chalkboard
hand drawn gallows

my hand print
on the side of a house
i’ll never visit again

caterpillar measures
the length of a bone
of a body hidden in the woods

the moon
has known me
all my life

sticky fingers
from caramel apples
delicious first kiss

dead flowers pressed
between the pages
a fairytale

in every way, he was perfect
at least with moonlight
to cover his flaws