a journey through haiku
[with annotations that are not unwinsome-less]


temperature speaks
you’ve had your cool days a while
time for something else
[told hot days are coming, are here]


something else there was
object before subject parsed
important thing gone
[thought of it last night]


and there was a launch
another to the station
they breathe and eat now
[ISS supply mission flight]


think we’ll find green cheese
and evidence of settlers
who no doubt were Swiss
[sorry to the French as well as the Stilton-bearers; take it up with Diana stories, I suppose; but it is the Swiss who make the cheese, not green, nonetheless with craters]


a glass of white wine
sometime after 5 or so
my flat heart would skip
[if you like red then write red or say it when you read it; part of you will do that, anyway]


I love you and more
scenes after each other then
hope for a real act
[discussion in a scene in a movie]


c l couch


photo by Huỳnh Chương on Unsplash