ash tray
beside no smoking sign
mixed signals
giraffes
get their groove on
succulents vibing
every car
seems like the one you’re driving
alcoholics
hit and run – the maquillage
of pantyhose
flowers through
the white pickets reaching out
leave them hangin’?
Author Bio
Jerome Berglund
Jerome Berglund graduated from the University of southern California’s Cinema-Television Production program and spent a picaresque decade in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he was born and raised. Since then he has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Jerome has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Failed Haiku, Scarlet Dragonfly, Cold Moon Journal, Bear Creek Haiku, the Zen Space and Daily Haiga.