Haiku on Haiku<\/strong><\/p>\n A Haiku is hard <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nto write, because you often
\nrun out of syllab–<\/p>\n
In the equation.<\/p>\n
Forever the seeker,
\nI hid from
\nfate
\nfor once, whispering
\n“please don’t find me.”<\/p>\n
Forearm-over-eyes
\ncount
\nto twenty-two.<\/p>\n
“Ready or not-”<\/p>\n
Behind tree,
\nthe split branch,
\nI tread in
\nfather’s garden<\/p>\n
“Here I come!”<\/p>\n
Aggressive,
\nas boys tend to be.<\/p>\n
Wheelbarrow &
\nscapegoat.<\/p>\n
Likewise, they speak
\nof growing
\nin brutal tones,
\na moral sin to know such
\nthings.<\/p>\n
“Whose fault is it,
\nthen?
\nI didn’t act on it.”<\/p>\n
To collect the
\nshards
\nof Robin’s nest,
\nrunny
\nthrough slit
\nfingers.<\/p>\n
Saltiness.<\/p>\n
A potential
\nfamily,
\nscrambled.<\/p>\n
My limb extends,
\nlike his
\nreflex, a boat
\nin storm,
\nsmacking moor
\nof forehead.<\/p>\n
She swore,
\n“Never again.”<\/p>\n
And even through
\nall the years
\nI spoke atrocities
\nupon him.
\nA vociferous
\npitchfork tongue
\nchainsaw,
\nbitter as scorched.<\/p>\n
Teething his
\nbark,
\noverheard
\nwhile in the garden,
\nthat nest,
\nalready shattered.<\/p>\n
I was only finding then
\npieces
\nof what’s been
\nbroken,
\na jigsaw of
\nflash
\nwhich made the
\nsun.<\/p>\n
We won’t know
\nour star
\nhas burnt out
\nuntil countless years
\nafter,
\n& much like that
\nchild
\nin garden.
\nBy then, it will be
\nfar too gone
\nfor any
\nnumber of appendages<\/p>\n
to resurrect
\na
\nyolk
\nwhich has
\nbled<\/p>\n
from its shell.
\n
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<\/a>Paul LaTorre is a 25-year old poet\/teacher from Newark, NJ. \u00a0He currently resides in Montclair, with his wife, Melissa and their 2 cats, striped turtle and leopard gecko.\u00a0A graduate of Bloomfield College, with a BA in Creative Writing, he is working on attaining his MFA in Creative\/Professional Writing, starting this fall. Paul’s aim is to one day soon be a professor of Creative Writing and Poetry.\u00a0His two crowning achievements as an undergrad were receiving the Joyce Carol Oates Award for Creative Writing, as well as founding ‘the Live Poets Society’, an organization formed to cultivate and further an appreciation and formulation of poetry at Bloomfield College. \u00a0\u00a0Paul’s poetry is a sprawling, elliptical whirlwind combining wordplay, syllabic rhythm, topical issues and pop culture references. Often personal, but also tends to tiptoe the line of commentary on many divisive social issues.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"