rain
one day
this plum too

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solitude
lobster
in a trap

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weeping flesh the peonies

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loon call
allowing myself
a selfish prayer

Jerome Berglund,

a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Cinema-Television Production program, spent a picaresque decade in the entertainment industry before returning to the Midwest, where he has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. He has many haiku, tanka, and haibun exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in Bottle Rockets, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Ribbons, Seashores, and Trash Panda. His work has been nominated for the Touchstone Awards and Pushcart Prize.

Jerome’s first full-length collections of poetry were recently released: Bathtub Poems: drum beats on a typewriter (Setu, March 2023), and Funny Pages (Meat For Tea Press, May 2023).

Find more of his work via this list at his website: Writing Publications

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Manure, poem by Jerome Berglund in The Dewdrop (14 May 2020)

⚡ Six Works by Berglund, three photohaiku (May 2022) and three poems (April 2022), in Unlikely Stories Mark V