Jesse – Selected haiku

4 August 2022

fries, cheese curds, gravy
sing in harmony of hot,
savory flavors

held like human child,
cat extends tongue to petit-
-ion freedom, not food

photographing cute
cat poses before they move
is like herding cats

Grey menace tries sink-
-ing his teeth into beer bot-
-tle; his prey prevails

to initiate 
request, cat sits on your chest, 
looks imperious

fluffy cat rests next
to your legs, fueling your love, 
his future mischief

Inspired by John Ashbery’s “37 Haiku,” here are 3 haiku about Halloween.

anyone can pretend to be anything they’d like on Halloween

prostitute’s yellow tunic looks becoming, does not beckon clients

melted dinosaurs become the corn cob base of an Internet meme