Prune Juice Journal of Senryu & Related Forms

Steve Hodge – USA (PJ16)

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Prune Juice

outside the dance
the Homecoming Queen
kissing the new girl

drunk again
the bully’s father
unbuckles his belt

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Prune Juice

“Trick-or-treat!”
a Cinderella Band-Aid
on Frankenstein’s hand

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Prune Juice

before the mirror
in his dead mother’s
long red dress,
he feels, he sadly admits,
she looked much better in it