Selected Haiku
by

Kimberly Keplar

Global Haiku Tradition
Millikin University, Fall 2000

Kimberly Keplar

 

perfumed sweat
in a smokey bar,
she asks to dance

singing my heart out
to a face in the mirror,
hairbrush in hand

sidewalk lit
by smiling gourds
a little clown sobs

  

 

empty swings
     still in motion,
I'm left again

cluttered room
in grandpa's basement
my old toys in boxes

  

©2001 Randy Brooks, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois || all rights reserved for original authors