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| Issue 20: | 15 Sept. 2023 |
| Haibun Story: | 54 words |
By Jonathan Humphrey
As For You, Lightning
My kin have been felled by your yellow-white axe. Wooden towers tipped from star tangle. Fire in the heavens rained low. But now I’ve got your number. I’ve put my hand in your crib. Toyed with your circuitry. I’m up here. I’m a quick study.
having hacked
into gravity
redwoods
Jonathan Humphrey’s
work has recently appeared in Acorn, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and The Heron’s Nest. With a fondness for whiskey and whippoorwills, he divides his time between the lights of Nashville and the woods of his native Kentucky.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ The Boy From Cave City, Kentucky (A Wreath of Sourgrass), haibun story by Jonathan Humphrey first published in cho 18.3 (1 December 2022); and selected for inclusion in The Best Small Fictions 2023 Anthology
⚡ NASA Gives Spiders, Insects LSD, haibun story in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 7, March 2021)
⚡ Song of Sweat (A Substation In Whitley County, Kentucky), haibun story in MacQ (Issue 4, July 2020)
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