Jerome Berglund has many haiku, senryu and tanka exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Black and White Haiga, Blōō Outlier Journal, Bones, Bottle Rockets, Cold Moon Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Frogpond, Haiku Dialogue, Haiku Seed, Impspired, Japan Society, Modern Haiku, Poetry Pea, Ribbons, Scarlet Dragonfly, Seashores, Synchronized Chaos, Time Haiku, Triya, Tsuri-dōrō, Under the Basho, Wales Haiku Journal, and the Zen Space.

Konami Code

           Left

      from mouths
of babes:
      projectile vomit

      gargling marbles
cost to
      being understood 

baking potato irish car bomb

       houses with lights off
still we knock
       still we knock

      shelf life of dry goods
provisions arrive
      fashionably late 

        Right

      matching riders
bay and dun
      side by side

      determined to dismiss 
the ghosts 
      that are objectively there

      guest bedroom
unoccupied 
      shivering wren

      all their fingerprints
on dread murder weapon
      so whom to prosecute 

      pansies 
first to succumb – 
      enhanced interrogation techniques

Up

      fire alarm 
requires two power sources
       …chirp

      intervention keepsakes…
dried up stones
      of the river Jordan 

      after brakes engage
mile it takes train to stop…
       on the tracks: 

      sunken cost:
faster lane opens… does not move, 
      having committed 

      minor major
ward pipeline – 
      spraying off so many birds

Down

poseur 
alaskan grey
      during feeding time


      tyke’s got 
a baby cart
      scalable vectors

a l l o w i n g   b r e a d   t o   e x p i r e   w e s t e r n   a f f r o n t s

      snake pits of paradise – 
Swiss safeguard
      Nazi gold

      mic goes out – 
have to yell 
      to reach back row

 Start

       wall to get over
convince one to act as stool
       pyramids of Bremen

     maybe stone wants to
grow things after a while,
      welcomes the dripping

      spits on me from balcony – 
loses one fan, small revenue, 
      glowing review

       all the things you could 
write with a paint pen... 
       fuck bitches make money 

      mighty Mississip
befitting basso profondo 
      …appropriation?