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Almost dawn. (senryu)

March 31, 2021Nancy Bottahaiku, micropoem, micropoetry, poem, poet, poetry, senryu, tanka, writer, writing 6 Comments

Hiss of the heater
and sweaty limbs of some man;
her eyes seek daylight.

© Nancy Botta, 2021

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Vernal equinox. (hiaku)

March 25, 2021Nancy Bottahaiku, micropoem, micropoetry, poem, poet, poetry, writer, writing 8 Comments

Ribboned plastic bag
enlaced within an elm tree;
robin weaves her nest.

© Nancy Botta, 2021

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Refuse. (haiku)

December 23, 2020Nancy Bottahaiku, micropoem, micropoetry, poem, poet, poetry, senryu, writing 11 Comments

burnt leaves and plastic
swallowed by eddies and waves—
our marriage, undone

© Nancy Botta, 2020

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Nail-biter.

November 24, 2020Nancy Bottafree verse, micropoem, micropoetry, poem, poet, poetry, prose, writer, writing 9 Comments

brown wooden planks

She keeps her compulsion
in a jaw set with grief
because busy mouths
and chatter teeth
will grind away time
and gnaw on memories
too lovely to keep.

© Nancy Botta, 2020

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Mothballs.

November 20, 2020Nancy Bottafree verse, grief, micropoem, micropoetry, poem, poet, poetry, writing 5 Comments
door doorknob door knob door handle

She would cry,
but at twelve
she stuffed her eyes
with all the silica packets
and mothballs she could find,
whenever she locked herself
inside her mother’s empty closet.

© Nancy Botta, 2020

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