goldfish bowl
my daughter asks
if I’m going to die
Author: John McManus
John McManus is 32. He live is Carlisle, Cumbria, England with his wife and children. He is the former Expositions editor for A Hundred Gourds, and is the founder and current editor of Frozen Butterfly. He was awarded a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation in 2012, as well as winning the annual Heron's Nest Readers choice awards. His haiku have been published in over 20 different journals and he was one of the poets featured in New Resonance 8 (Red Moon Press).
fingernail moon
my mother sharpens
her words
driftwood
we discuss
our origins
unexpected heat
a mannequin
winks at me
season opener
I wheel my father
into the shade
owls hooting
somewhere in the darkness
I enter
the last digit
of her number
backstroke the sound of my mother’s womb
(published in Haijinx IV:1)
row boat—
we float deeper
into dusk