"Clover" by Jerome Berglund

Davis stands

before projection…

raises instrument to his lips

stare long enough through open window

catch someone exposed

baring all

passion fruit preserves

dusty shelf back of pantry

pains joints retrieving

most humid

new paint job deck furniture refuses to dry –

sticky for weeks

flame before him so tiny

barely distinguishable…

could burn forever

Jerome Berglund 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. He has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Failed Haiku, Scarlet Dragonfly, Cold Moon, Bear Creek Haiku, and Daily Haiga.