Glovebox 

Once I put my thoughts
into the cubbyhole
of the car
while driving,

and forgot them there,
lost them
when we sold the car,

and a new pair
of sunglasses.

Now I wonder
who wears them,

sees the world
more darkly.

 - Brian Walter

Haiku

Egyptian geese

– despite everything –

are still the lungs of god

*  *  *

ghalaghadi twisters,

tsunami, tornado:

whirlwinds of change

 - Brian Walter  

                        Off the Hook

When Yahaweh bragged to Job

He could land Leviathan any day He wished

– so great was His rod –

He took His own bait;

so as the Myth healed on through generations of minds

Jesus came

to get the Old Man

off

the hook

– and

save

Job’s kind.

                        (For Michael Appelt, 1/2/2015)

 - Norman Morrissey 

Haiku

childhood sight

– a large fish flashes in a stream –

when the world was rich

 *  *  *

called out of class

for speech lessons:

I had a lazy tongue

 *  *  *

I stuttered and lisped

reading “wasps’ nest”: they let me

leave a gap in sound

 *  *  *

I glance upward

without wandering outside:

deadlines at moonrise

 - Brian Walter