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

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

#Haiku: Pedigree Collapse
DNA results;
Lineage;
Pass it on;
Lives not lost
Wisdom
Lived.

#Haiku: Night
Dark suspends Day
Shadows succumb
Creatures rehearse:
Dreams power
Gardens.

#Haiku: Alive
Energy
Boils cells
Floods flesh
Pervades brain
Bubbles pores:
Ignites
Being

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

#Haiku: Negative Energy
Anger
Escalates;
Mutates;
Rage hijacks;
Synchs
Aggression.
Try
Breath work

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

#Haiku: Confession
First step –
Hard step –
Acknowledge failure.
Open
Emptily –
To receive.

#Haiku: Subterfuge Inc.
Ruse patrol:
Dissimulating –
Saboteuse –
Guerilla guest –
C’est moi.

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.”