2.27.2026
SUMMER PEOPLE
come children
party
animals
to the house we built
on rubble and ash
warm yourselves
next to the bonfire
kindled from our limbs
each morning
we consigned our dead
in the afternoon
we tended
our sick
at midnight
we danced
with the plague
at the door
of our young bodies
gorgeous
as your own
in the glow
of our long burningCRAFT NOTE
This poem is a chain of six “fractured” lunes. The lune, invented by Robert Kelly, is the so-called American haiku. In its classic form, the lune is a single tercet of 13 syllables (5-3-5). Unlike the traditional Japanese haiku, a lune doesn’t need a reference to nature or a cutting word. The lune is pretty much a “get out of [haiku] jail free” card.

I'm thinking I would probably enjoy doing time in haiku jail. Sounds peaceful.
I always like a get out of jail free card