smart young curs
(listen to the poem, read by the author)
smart young curs test the
limitations of confines
continually
Image description: dark reflection of a tree.
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lucky he’s so cute
(listen to the poem, read by the author)
lucky he’s so cute
or wouldn’t get away with
all of this nonsense
Image description: light post reflected in water.
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one can’t scoop liquid
(listen to the poem, read by the author)
one can’t scoop liquid
have to leave where it falls with
much embarrassment
Image description: reflection of a tree in fall with leaves.
Editor’s Note: These works appeared originally in a self-published collection; they are reproduced here with the artist’s permission.
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About the Artist
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. Berglund has exhibited many haiku and senryu online and in print, most recently in Tofu Ink Arts, Vermillion, Hey I’m Alive Magazine, and Fauxmoir. He is furthermore an established, award-winning fine art photographer, whose black and white pictures have been shown in galleries across New York, Minneapolis, and Santa Monica. You can read Jerome’s earlier published works collected in Bindle Bum and Paint Chips, available through Amazon. Read more previous publications on his website.