store windows barred shut
footsteps of a man in black
echoing mine
FYI: For more examples, see "To the Lighthouse: Haiku Noir"
Added:
in a blue suit
the "Great One" walked onto the ice
near the US team’s bench
with a thumbs up ...
Gretzky statue smeared with poop
FYI: Maclean's, March 5: Goodbye to Gretzky
The cracks in Gretzky’s patriotism have been showing for years. In 2009, he was promoted to companion of the Order of Canada—the nation’s highest civilian honour—but he wouldn’t come home to accept it. “It’s just embarrassing,” Christopher McCreery, an expert on the Canadian honours system, said in 2018, after nearly a decade had passed and The Great One still claimed the honour.
Added: Trump Empire, Inc., XI
Land of the Crazed --> USA
Canada <-- Home of the Brave
giant road sign
at the corner of the border
as flocks of geese fly north
FYI: This could be read as a prequel to the following:
in Toronto sunshine
with the scent of early spring
and freedom
two Americans meet and part:
one draft dodger, one Trump evader
Added: Trump Empire, Inc., XII
Uber ride home
a Trumpinator bobblehead
rattles on the dashboard
(FYI: Trumpinator bobblehead is a figurine of Donald Trump as the Terminator)
Added: Trump Empire, Inc., XIII
fast-hitting snowstorm
as Trump enacts another round
of tariffs ...
to stay or to go, this longing
to migrate to Never Land
FYI: John Koenig coined this word, Anemoia, for his book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It’s a pang of nostalgia for a place you’ve never been or an era you didn’t live through.
