deeper each time the summer well
(originally appeared in Under The Basho, 2014 Issue)
Author: Carl Seguiban
Carl's native tongue is Chavacano, spoken by less than half a million people and dwindling. A trained architect, haiku appeals to his modernist leanings. 'Less is more', ?form follows function?- these dicta for modernism also guide his haiku. His poems have been published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Bottle Rockets, A Hundred Gourds, Moongarlic, Presence, Under the Basho, paper wasp, FreeXpression, The Heron's Nest, cattails, Prune Juice among others. He hopes to publish a haiku book in Chavacano before he or the language disappears.
last rites. . .
rain fading into
bird song
(Received 1st Place in the 2015 Betty Drevniok Award)
ending
in wind chimes—
the heat
paper dolls ?
she tries on
her mother’s voice