Jerome Berglund | 3 Poems
Grassroots
pair trot by
they don’t bat an eyelash
— boar country
justice of the peace, activist
differing definitions
preferences
sting of horseradish defense of law enforcement
Uncle Sam’s flag has vanished…
now raises
a clenched fist
if
every car-thief
scamps
in Stranger Things
Thanksgiving
cranberry stained fingers
these pilgrims
you treat with
‘proud to see in uniform…’
ministry’s heavy hand
blots teleplay
void in the turkey
that can’t be filled
reparations
they sleep
on the mass graves
lulled by tryptophan
Libertad
luck be a lady
tonight
Solidarity
Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the Touchstone awards and Pushcart Prize, graduated from the University of Southern California’s Cinema-Television Production program and spent a picaresque decade in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he was born and raised. Since then he has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Jerome has many haiku, senryu and tanka exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, CoalitionWorks’ Fall Issue, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Haiku Dialogue, Haiku Seed, Poetry Pea, Scarlet Dragonfly, Triya, Under the Basho, Wales Haiku Journal, and the Zen Space.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BerglundJerome
Blog: https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/blog-1/
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