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| Issue 12: | March 2022 |
| Haibun: | 94 words |
By Roberta Beary
[Featured Artist]
But We’re Family
Olivia’s brother Gerard shows up at her dorm the Saturday her roommate is away. He begs his sister to take off her shirt and bra. So he can compare her breasts to his girlfriend’s. Gerard says he won’t touch. Olivia believes him.
day moon
paper wishes float
on a leafless tree
:::
Gerard waves goodbye from his wheelchair in the assisted living facility. At home Olivia tells her husband about that long ago Saturday. I’m sure he regrets it more than you do, her husband says.
deep inside
the heirloom vase
housefly
Roberta Beary’s
second collection of short poems, Carousel, is co-winner of the Snapshot Press 2019 book award contest. Her first short-form collection, The Unworn Necklace, received a finalist book award from the Poetry Society of America. Her collection of prose poetry, Deflection (Accents Publishing, 2015), was named a National Poetry Month Best Pick by Washington Independent Review of Books.
Long-time haibun editor of Modern Haiku, Ms. Beary is also co-editor of Wishbone Moon: An Anthology of Haiku by Women (Jacar Press, 2018), and she recently judged the Sable Books Haiku Contest for Women Book Award.
Her writing has appeared in Rattle, KYSO Flash, 100 Word Story, Cultural Weekly, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and The New York Times, and is also featured in A Companion to Poetic Genre (John Wiley & Sons, 2011) and Haiku In English: The First Hundred Years (W. W. Norton, 2013).
Ms. Beary lives in the west of Ireland with her husband, Frank Stella, and tweets her photoku and micro-poetry on Twitter [at] shortpoemz.
Author’s website: https://robertabeary.com/news/
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Featured Guest: Roberta Beary on Rattlecast 133 hosted by Tim Green, editor of Rattle poetry journal (YouTube, 28 February 2022)
⚡ Roberta Beary, haiku poet and editor, on writing Haibun, interview with Mike Rehling, editor of Failed Haiku (YouTube, 8 February 2021)
⚡ Tiny Love Stories in The New York Times (8 January 2019); scroll five stories down the page for Roberta Beary’s “Now It’s All Fresh Fish” and her photograph of lobster traps in Clew Bay, Ireland.
⚡ The art of brevity, an interview by Ciara Moynihan in Mayo News (22 January 2019)
⚡ Lunch Break, a haibun by Beary in Rattle (#56, Summer 2017), Tribute to Poets with Mental Illness; includes audio (17 July 2017)
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