The morning’s a table
laid out for our pleasure,
with coffee on a timer,
beans ground and measured.
The sun drips like butter
through slits in the blinds,
licks two spooned torsos,
limbs tangled like vines.
But something is missing—
the eggs? the pork?
Before we rise and shine,
I think we need a fork.
A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Scott Wiggerman is co-editor of the forthcoming Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose from Dos Gatos Press. He is the Haiku Foundation’s Guest Editor for selections of Haiku of the Day during National Poetry Month, April 2023, with the challenging topic of LGBTQIA. Widely published, Wiggerman is stoked to have a haibun—“To Get There”—in Contemporary Haibun (Volume 18) of the Red Moon anthology series for the best English-language haibun published in 2022.
