off season
the fair grounds
filled with wind
—Jeffrey Winke
About the author: Jeffrey Winke, jeff_winke at yahoo dot com
Jeffrey Winke is an industrial writer and adjunct university professor of modern poetry, business communication and public speaking in Milwaukee, Wis. His recent book What's Not There: Selected Haiku of Jeffrey Winke is a 2002 Merit Book Award winner. His motion graphics haiku collection, Chances, has been selected as a Cool Site winner. And a collection of Winke's essays combined with found art was recently exhibited at Milwaukee's Green Dragon Freedom Cafè gallery.
outside the fair
childhood memory
fills my mind
barker, resounding in the wind
cross the vacant grounds
the crowd's litter
october beach deserted
tea house boarded up
bright graffiti
October winds-
the last home run
thrown back
Kate
hot bleachers
the wind stirs the trees
in season -
the snowbirds
return to miami beach
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JJ
the old philosopher asks. . .
are you so vain you think this response is about you? are they ever?
is haiku poetry? some but not all?
are all poets poets? like zen masters,
poets never call themselves poets, who
needs the stench of it? these days, "poets"
are a dime a dozen. who is charlie rossiter
anyway?
off season
deer return
to the campground
...wondering what i was doing in 2005". and after nearly 4 years, sylvain, your question remains unanswered. akin to carly simon's "you're so vain", after 30 years we're yet wondering (who). funny thought, "it could have been me".
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in season
bougainvillaea blossoms--
never seem out of season