canyon crow
answering
itself
Author: Bryan Rickert
Bryan lives with his family in Southern Illinois and has degrees in art and education. He has been studying and writing the Japanese short poetry forms since 2012 and been published in many fine journals and anthologies. His first book Fish Kite is now available on Amazon and the Cyberwit website.
in spite of all my failures forsythia
tired
of being tired
winter crows
prairie restoration
a hundred miles
of lark song
snow on snow
all the things this pill
cannot fix
departing summer
a contrail becomes
the only cloud
rolling blackouts
cicadas ratchet
up the heat
autumn leaves falling for her
morning heat
the neighbor packs down
his cigarettes
a tree tagged
for clearing
summer’s end
Amish country
the precision
of a cracked whip
cemetery
a woodpecker’s
taps
using one
to bookmark another
summer reading
winter rain
the dog-eared ace
shuffled back in
Hiroshima Day
hydrangeas
bent low
vacation’s end —
finding my worry stone
right where I left it