newenglandhaiku:

bird feeder pole

bent with weight of sunflower

seeds in gray ice storm

ninjahaiku:

Ice’s fingers creep

across the gray windowpane

THROAT PUNCHED WHILE YOU SLEEP!

Headache

Dendrites on parade

Unsheath their myelin-

They stomp, free and naked.

Axons on fire

Taunted higher and higher

By their screams and

Clangs of their Golgi gongs –

Bending and stretching their electric filaments

To new, distorted levels

Like Jimi Hendrix with an amp that goes up to eleven.

All this feedback and noise

Acts as apoplectic alchemy

Turning my brain to lead-

Cold and heavy behind my eyes.

-RKK