Here
lies a pile of haikus that I've written, but not published in my books
(a few of which may have gone into an external zine or other project).
2010-2017
See also my haiku books.
Invisible Privilege
Default Assumptions
Insidious Advantage
Can't be Acknowledged
/
Atmospheric
Insolence
winter has fallen
summer swollen, is rollin'
off horizon's edge
/
Halfling
not for or against
this exclusionary world
just want to exist
/
Confidence Cops
exalt
modesty
you mustn't claim
excellence
for all are special
/
Conditional
don't
like me pissy
encourage my better self
go ahead, judge me
/
Oh, My Gossip!
news cycle epic
commentator vultures gorge
carnage, conjecture
/
Benevolence
passion
for people
inner compulsion to serve
desperation tinge
/
~~~~~Isis iS~~~~~
in gold envelope
tragic magic androgyne
throne of redemption
mother exemption
pieces together
hover over hope
/
Staying out of it!
never taking part
refusing all engagement
isn’t that extreme?
/
V is for vegan
radical virtue
sublimating one's pleasure
punch-drunk pacifist
/
Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian
Never
food with face
Elude harm, we think, but death
Follows mother screams
/
Rape-Rack Farm$
without consent we
put semen in uterus
not pleasure, business!
/
Juxtaposeur
fantastical-phile
magnanimous creatrix
vision brimming style
/
Breast Arrest
twins
of nurturing
female legitimacy
mastectomated
/
Abort
knife-trick,
then quick bow
no standing ovulation
the growth is over
/
Veracity Mask
application
of
a little tint to the skin
and see the real me
/
Muy Handy Hover
"for sun" in Spanish
blocks solar radiation
curvaceous cover
/
How to Relax
work
harder, longer
pummel projects until all
complete, empty, weep
/
Apocalypse, please!
survival realness
I disaster-fantasized,
drowning in sadness
