Global Haiku • Spring 2018
Dr. Randy Brooks

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NicoleWells
Nicole Wells

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


© 2018, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
All rights returned to authors upon publication.