grackles
the teen boys
raid the fridge

 

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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.

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  1. .

    grackles
    the teen boys
    raid the fridge

    —JENNIFER HAMBRICK

    I remember a dad saying all you need to do is keep the fridge well stocked at all times for teenagers! He'd keep a 24 hour fridge that was in itself an open house all hours. They grew up okay, so it could be part of a good plan.

    But I guess teenagers like to sneak down to the kitchen even if they actually have permission to 'raid' the fridge! :-)

    Ah, grackles, and teen boys, what a racket! :-)

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    someone kicks
    a fridge full of things
    shut again

    Alan Summers
    Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 25.4 (November 2015)
    From the haibun "The Beat Is Back" which is about a 'what if' Kerouac could come back to contemporary times. :-)

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