Prune Juice Journal of Senryu & Related Forms

Bryan Rickert – USA (PJ30)

rough tweed
hearing father’s voice
in mine

with every hair
left in the brush
a bit more Buddhist

afterward
asking
if he’s married too

on the treadmill —
comparing
heart attacks

I have fulfilled
my mother’s dream —
childless

glacial grooves slipping into the back pew

after the party
all the people who didn’t come
to mind

addiction takes another holiday