black friday
two crows tear
at a plastic bag
Published by
Jennifer Hambrick
A four-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Jennifer Hambrick won the 2020 Sheila-Na-Gig Pres Poetry Prize, won First Place in the 2018 Haiku Society of America's Haibun Award Competition, won First Place in the 2021 Martin Lucas Haiku Competition, and authored the collections In the High Weeds, winner of the Stevens Manuscript Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies; Joyride (Red Moon Press), winner of the Marianne Bluger Book Award from Haiku Canada; and Unscathed (NightBallet Press). She has won numerous other awards for her work, which has been published in The Columbia Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Santa Clara Review, Maryland Literary Review, POEM, the Red Moon Press haiku and contemporary haibun anthologies, Modern Haiku Press’ Haiku 20xx anthologies of “Notable Ku,” Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, Frogpond, Contemporary Haibun Online, and in dozens of other journals and invited anthologies worldwide. A classical musician and public radio broadcaster and multimedia producer, Jennifer Hambrick lives in Columbus. View all posts by Jennifer Hambrick
I think I saw those birds at the mall…. Love this haiku!
perfect!
Thank you so much, Kathy!
Those scavengers tearing at plastic gets at the violence and futility beautifully.
Thank you so much, Gaby.
Works so well! A perfect reflection.
Thank you, Bob!
Love this.
I'm so glad, Jean! Thank you!
I'm sure you did see these crows at the mall, Alexa. Thanks so much for your kind words.
It’s appropriate that it is a plastic bag they are fighting over, Jennifer. Yes, there is the connection with shopping but also the fact that it is an item of no use to them and they still squabble over it on Black Friday is a great observation.
marion