Senryu

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

on uncle frank's arms
bruises where death tapped him,
asking for the time

-- Ray McNiece

Comments

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

It's real ominous but sort of personal, too.

[writtenbyhand.livejournal.com]

I know. It manages to be creepy, sad, witty and damn wonderful in just three lines. Wow.

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

Which is why I say, hurrah for haiku! Err, senryu.