Here are all of the short poems published in the online journal Weird Laburnum.adrift at seathe god we pray towaves *from the kitchen windowmy parents hosta festival of squirrels *NO SOLICITING her future *between one thought and the next empty space *in the mirror an emoticon he mimics himself *a mask of my younger self confidence *petting the space where the dog was darkness *swinging his banana republic *asemic writinga shoelace pullsa trail of rain *the name I set my poems to comet moths *click bait Jesus the phisher of men*her holiday picture the lifespan of iguanas*as if he grewfrom the earthon his jeans *with the window still open I wake to a chilland tuck myself into your shadow *she nurses a cold that hasn’t got betterthe late autumn night stuffed with fog *feeling my lungsthicken with flem I hack upa chunk of self pity *the coldest dayof the winter so farwe stay inside despair *driving my son to clarinet lessons the screechand the squealof my brakes *putting away the last of the groceriesa squirrel with a cheek fullof seeds *filling the pagewith meaningless scribbleI empty the timefrom my day
Dave Read Poetry: Weird Laburnum
#HH #1 (5/18/24): Dave Read’s #haikai #poetry appears in Weird Laburnum!
Frank J. Tassone 
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