
#Haiku: Rhythmic Exercise
Sea creatures imbibe
Each wave; sea
Breathers
Ratify
Einstein’s
Stardust

#Haiku: Rhythmic Exercise
Sea creatures imbibe
Each wave; sea
Breathers
Ratify
Einstein’s
Stardust

#Haiku; Prickly Poppy
Bitter melon
Ensnares:
Tastes embroil;
Preclude;
Collude –
Confederate

#HAIKU; The Huddle
I’ve
Got nothing: you –
Less;
Heads put together
Solve each other’s problems

#Haiku: Autoclave
Parts melt
Under pressure;
Quiver,
Fuse, resolve into steel or
Explode

Haiku: Relief
Generous souls
Confront fear’s energy
Calmly.
World‘s pain
Blocked,
Transformed.

#Haiku: Initiative vs Guilt
Shouldn’t but
Couldn’t
Stop; Must
Consume my way out;
Mired –
Stuck;
Stupe-fried

#Haiku: Old vs New
Antique gods
Mandated murder;
New goddess favors
Propagation.

#Haiku: Karma
Come round –
Go round.
Love reaps love
Law reaps
Justice
Violence reaps
Whirlwind.
by Alysse Aallyn

#Haiku: Overthinking
Brain heats up
Smoke blurs eyes
Complications threaten –
Solutions
Vanish

Chapter 20 – The End
We flew to a hotel at LaGuardia,
Called Derek, whose father suggested
Vince Tromwell. He got
Mirabel immunity as long as she told
“the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”
and after they tested the shirt and the knife
Verne even confessed –
If you call taking an Alford plea –
(Which legally means “You got me”) –
Confession. Verne got forty years
On each count with deportation
Instead of parole.
Mom and Dad didn’t mind
Having a yoga teacher in the family –
They both started yoga –
I admit I did too –
That’s what big sisters are for;
They go through everything first
So you don’t have to.
We get to be writers, we
The little sisters
Poets and thinkers of all the peaceful
Afternoons; assessing, not
Regressing, savoring even
The upside down moments
Right side up and
Passing them to history.
It worked on everyone but Mr.
Mowgley, English teacher,
Who said;
“Shouldn’t you write this
In the third person voice
To gain some distance?”
I said, “Never.
I’m Richenda Marshott, only me and
I’ll never pretend to be
Anyone else.”