Two Winter Haiku
Your coat has fallen
from the peg. I don’t bother
to pick it back up.
* * * * *
Burning your letters ―
this is the only warmth you
have ever given.
from the peg. I don’t bother
to pick it back up.
* * * * *
Burning your letters ―
this is the only warmth you
have ever given.
Bio
Kurt Luchs (kurtluchs.com) has poems published or forthcoming in Plume Poetry Journal, The American Journal of Poetry, and The Bitter Oleander. He took Second Place in the 2019 Fischer Poetry Prize, and won the 2019 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest. He has written humor for the New Yorker, the Onion and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, as well as writing comedy for television and radio. His humor collection is It's Funny Until Someone Loses an Eye (Then It's Really Funny) (Sagging Meniscus Press). His poetry chapbook is One of These Things Is Not Like the Other (Finishing Line Press).