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Haiku for Adulthood: Sentimental Hearts Club Band

#209

Your heat undressed me

slow as sunrise — I mistook it

for tenderness.

_________

#210

What did we have, really?

Hot nights in cold beds where

neither of us sleep.

_________

#211

The word sits on my

tongue, thick with rage and longing.

“Congratulations.”

_________

#212

I won’t say it. I’ll

stand, muted, proud — an altar

where you once worshiped.

_________

#213

Mud-tongued, I type “I

love you” into my keyboard,

which blinks and blinks and

_________

#214

Everywhere we’ve

never been, I make my home

there. And there I wait.

_________

#215

Distance is different

than the indifferent men

I must covet.

_________

#216

It’s all my fault. I

allowed my baked earth to glimpse

your precious waters.

_________

This Post Has 5 Comments

  1. Oliver Holland

    I really enjoyed reading these over coffee this morning. I particularly like #209 and #214: #209 is so sexy and #214 speaks to a mysterious longing I recognize. They both imply so much with so little. Keep up the good work!

  2. anna

    Thanks Oliver! Glad you liked them.

  3. Lauren

    Someone’s reading Jane Miller. ๐Ÿ˜‰ “Red Hills and Sky”

    These are absolutely beautiful. I say again, you’re on fire!

  4. anna

    Guilty. And thanks. When you say that, I get the Amanda Palmer song in my head now ๐Ÿ™‚

  5. Michael L. Moore

    Another very good set. Your complexity is wonderful, A! #214 is superb.

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