You seem to know what
I need
My night was black with sleep
Dreamless, sated
I slept
Acknowledging my need for your
Embrace
Category: NAP-P
HAIKU 04082019
feet many feet move
over much of the Earth’s face
asylum nowhere
Haiku: THE SAFECO EFFECT
Property taxes
Overcharged, but paid today
The Safeco effect
HAIKU 04032019
water quenches thirst
without it we dry and die
water right for life
HAIKU 04022019
students go hungry
children young adults hungry
hunger’s face changes
3152019
suddenly away
sisters brothers babies gone
the Umma is rent
Haiku 2192016
the older I get
class distinctions come sharply
clearly into view
Haiku 1252019
I imagine porn
insurrectionist, by slaves
freedom accustomed
NAP-P: In Praise of Tea
My Queendom for a
cuppa
Pomegranate white or
Honey ginger
spice sweet
bringing my world into focus
gently
Beepers
That’s how it began . . . introduction of a thneed . . . have the population come
to take the thneed as a given, its ubiquity commonplace and accepted.
Turn that thneed into a Drone, to be detonated ad hoc, at will, the holder never
wiser of demise. . . .
