In the mountain-
sometimes a butterfly,
sometimes wind.
The proprietor
adorns his café with little pigs:
Shinjuku cutlet.
To the left a palm
tree unfolds all its fronds
like Carmen Miranda.
Yesterday there was
only one bud on the tree
that I could discern.
Magnolia tree!
why do you drop your white
and magenta sheaves?
Valerie Savior lives in Los Angeles, but she has spent
many years in Japan, Iowa, New York and Chicago, all
places with a proper Fall. Even so, she feels the season
turning in her homogenous city, making a returned
apprenticeship to haiku form all the more tantalizing
and intimate. She has published poetry in such journals
as Colorado Review, Fine Madness, The Iowa Review, The Germ,
Seneca Review and Volt.
Valerie Savior lives in Los Angeles, but she has spent
many years in Japan, Iowa, New York and Chicago, all
places with a proper Fall. Even so, she feels the season
turning in her homogenous city, making a returned
apprenticeship to haiku form all the more tantalizing
and intimate. She has published poetry in such journals
as Colorado Review, Fine Madness, The Iowa Review, The Germ,
Seneca Review and Volt.