FIFTEEN HAIKU

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breeze whispers over

disheveled pile of clothing

lovers sleep close by

* * *

first snow

autumn mind leaps

into drifts

* * *

finches tweet on wires

across a metal-filled gulch

soon, ivory covers

* * *

kiss my neck

run your fingers through my hair

make me beautiful

* * *

touch my chest

your fingers entangled

in my pulse

* * *

we have banana

peppers but not banana

plantains: a mantra

* * *

april sunset

redgold hair with flowers weaved

summer approaches

* * *

christmas reave

bloody walls splotched

my dream

coalesces

    green

* * *

last tangled leaves

fall     barbecue begins 

* * *

August mist obscures

far off hills

         sweat on my lips

from your belly

* * *

the vinegar scent

sings the body electric

fridge on the fritz again

* * *

sap drips

from cutoff branches

dawnrazor

* * *

leaf drifts

in wind, snatched in midflight

by sparrow

* * *

autumn caresses

my face, falls from clouds

splashes late rose.

* * *

hawk descends

rodential dinner hot

in twilight

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© Robert Beveridge

Bio: Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Blood and Thunder, Feral, and Grand Little Things, among others.

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