Poetry – A Visit to the Idea Factory

“Wood Chipper”

Wood chipper!
Do as you will.

Wood chipper

What do you see?

Cuento Magazine was kind enough to publish a couple of my historical haikus to Twitter.

Shot while rallying his troops during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Montcalm is dead.

Battered and shelled church

Lament of a conspirator.

Secrets discovered

There is a reason you know nothing about Apollo 18.

Undead hands appear

Watery graves – the very same
As the ones we feared back home

Plunged into a distant sea

Survivors of the fall

Six becomes five.

The great light had suddenly died

We huddled and desperately cried

A new darkness to us unknown

As He desired.

Each would chatter

Much that was true

A few lines about my homeland.

Appalachian nights

Quiet mountain heights

Don’t eat cafeteria food before bed.

Even when on sabbatical, his nightmares pulled him back to this place.