monarchs returning to pure instinct
Author: Dave Bonta
Dave Bonta (davebonta.com) is the author of Failed State: Haibun (Via Negativa Books, 2021) and Ice Mountain: An Elegy (Phoenicia Publishing, 2017). His haiku, senryu and haibun have appeared hither and yon, including in Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Wales Haiku Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online, Haibun Today, and Modern Haiku.
monitoring the dead zone blue crabbers
steel band
the oil drums
that drive us
climate strike
making her own sign
like a kid again
puberty
we take turns touching
the electric fence
all-night laundromat
my pyjamas toss and turn
in the dryer