the year's coldest night
a barbershop quartet
warms up 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 end
tarpaulins
in the evening rain
street fair
sent home
affairs in order
spring snowman
a sack
of windfall apples
Sabbath
the long shadow
of a flower vendor
Mother’s Day
someone stirs
in the darkened house…
All Hallows’ Eve
aftershocks…
the segue from rescue
to recovery
fireworks…
phantasms turn
to gunsmoke
fairy lights
on a sapling…
her prom dress
outlasting
everyone she loved –
heartwood
kitchen moon
a cricket sings
from my shoe
elegy
the boy soprano’s
highest note
moon shadow where the singer takes a breath
fish tank
the four corners
of the world
a murder of crows night comes to pieces
the now she returns to dementia
hum
in the honeysuckle
first day of school
leaving
the wayfarers’ chapel
moonlight
diamond ring
all the facets
of desire
autumn stars
she hopes to go
in her sleep
quarantine
an orange peel
fills the room
the priest
motions a blessing
aftermath
roadside perch the hitchhiker’s distant stare