AMBER
FOSSILIZED SUNLIGHT
MOSQUITO’S LAST SUPPER
DEATH, HERE IS THY STING
Scratching at crumbly walls of his dark tunnel, a bright circle of earth lit by his headlamp, the amber hunter slows his pace at the first glint of ancient sunlight.
TREES ONCE BLED
LIQUID PRISONS ENGULFING
SPRING-HATCHED INVADERS
In his warm, pine-paneled office at the University of Stockholm, the professor examines his prize through a hand held lens. Extraordinary! Must be a dozen species. Better than dinosaurs, he thinks, imagining giant dragonflies in Siberia, the frozen hills of Greenland covered in palm trees.
SUMMER’S BUZZING STILLED
THE BEST MINDS CALCULATE
COMING EXTINCTIONS
Andrew Periale is the Poet Laureate of Rochester, NH, a member of Portsmouth’s “City Hall Poets,” and has had a career as a puppeteer, playwright, polyglot. He is the founding editor of Puppetry International magazine, which is designed by his wife and puppetry partner, Bonnie at their home in Strafford, NH. His recent poems have appeared in Light Quarterly, Entelechy International, and the 2008 Poets' Guide to New Hampshire.
“Amber” is written in the haibun form, which combines haiku with a very distilled prose.
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Poem and photo are used here with the permission of the poet, all rights reserved.
FOSSILIZED SUNLIGHT
MOSQUITO’S LAST SUPPER
DEATH, HERE IS THY STING
Scratching at crumbly walls of his dark tunnel, a bright circle of earth lit by his headlamp, the amber hunter slows his pace at the first glint of ancient sunlight.
TREES ONCE BLED
LIQUID PRISONS ENGULFING
SPRING-HATCHED INVADERS
In his warm, pine-paneled office at the University of Stockholm, the professor examines his prize through a hand held lens. Extraordinary! Must be a dozen species. Better than dinosaurs, he thinks, imagining giant dragonflies in Siberia, the frozen hills of Greenland covered in palm trees.
SUMMER’S BUZZING STILLED
THE BEST MINDS CALCULATE
COMING EXTINCTIONS
Andrew Periale is the Poet Laureate of Rochester, NH, a member of Portsmouth’s “City Hall Poets,” and has had a career as a puppeteer, playwright, polyglot. He is the founding editor of Puppetry International magazine, which is designed by his wife and puppetry partner, Bonnie at their home in Strafford, NH. His recent poems have appeared in Light Quarterly, Entelechy International, and the 2008 Poets' Guide to New Hampshire.
“Amber” is written in the haibun form, which combines haiku with a very distilled prose.
---------------
Poem and photo are used here with the permission of the poet, all rights reserved.
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