the year's coldest night…
Author: Roland Packer
Roland lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. For over 40 years he has worked as a professional musician in various roles; performer, teacher and composer. He has been writing haiku since the early 80s and has authored a mini-chapbook,"Wayfarers" (Phafours Press, 2017) and a full-length collection, "no heroic measures" (Red Moon Press, 2024).
slide
of the crooner
year’s…
tarpaulins
in the evening…
sent home
affairs in order…
a sack
of windfall apples…
the long shadow
of a flower…
someone stirs
in the darkened…
aftershocks…
the…
fireworks…
phantasms…
fairy lights
on a sapling……
outlasting
everyone she…
kitchen moon
a cricket sings…
elegy
the boy soprano’s…
moon shadow where the singer…
fish tank
the four corners…
a murder of crows …
the now she returns to dementia…
hum
in the honeysuckle
first…
leaving
the wayfarers’…
diamond ring…
autumn stars
she hopes to…
quarantine
an orange peel…
the priest
motions a blessing…
roadside perch the hitchhiker’s…