Month: July 2019

after the scan the hospital monitor doesn’t settle

“Lakeview, Chicago,” a haibun by Amelia Cotter.

pain meds wandering a maze of dim corridors

living will — she paints her fingernails different colours  

with nicotine-stained fingers he pays the fare winter rain

Winter evening sunset in a glass of cognac

the old elm its darkness perfected by snow  

sick in winter the infinite white of the ceiling

crescent moon she leans deeper into her cane    

falling snow – the memories I choose to keep

late winter cough the crack in the souffle’

bean harvest a snail’s tentacle touching sky  

anniversary of Apollo 11– losing the remote       (Jack Stamm Award, Finalist, 2004)

mid-July the wheat field quivers before thunder

cricket songs all of them oldies

wild orchid clinging to the bark our carved heart

Autumn afternoon we keep our distance in dappled light talking about the life we haven’t shared

beach roses getting changed under a towel

wiping sand from the broken conch . . . summer’s end

dusk crawls across the field crickets