FOUND poems

Haiku

one frozen apple
with blistered, shiny skin ~
creek runs under ice
~Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Senryu

she trained herself
to live 'in deprivation'
just half-sticks of gum
~Joan Didion on Emily Harris

famous
for being famous:
Anna Nicole Smith
~ from the news

her 88th year
most successful one ever
in winning contests
~Hazel Bell Nicholas, personal correspondence

still out of step
twenty years later . . .victim
of a different drum
~Joan Didion, After Henry

". . . living
past celebrity
to exhaustion"
~about W. Faulkner & E. Hemingway by John Leonard (New Yorker)

"coaches
using words like surreal--
that's surreal."
~Doug Smith, AR Times

". . . single to married
to single in
thirty-six hours"
~Barry Gottlieb on Britney Spears