one cicada becoming another deep summer
Author: Laurence Stacey
Laurence Stacey is a writer, martial artist, and graduate student of
English at Kennesaw State University. He is co-editor of the web
journal Haiku News and teaches Developmental Reading at Chattahoochee
Technical College.
year finally over
I scrub a ring
from the tub
end of the
corporate ladder
autumn thistle
spring hail …
the moment I chose
to live
(Previously published in Mu, 2012)
deep in debt
I answer the phone
as my son
our marriage
or what’s left of it . . .
fireflies
cold moon . . .
my mother goes
to voicemail