Family Life (a series of experimental haiku)

Ethan

Infatuation –
Winner of America.
Paper tigers ghosts.

Lauren

Beast in the kitchen –
Drowned thing with her rosary.
At war with the roast.

Ambrose

Throne. Ghost. Leaf. All guests.
Pale. Ancestral bloodlines – a clever-experiment
In romanticism.

Mum

Beach-life. A green-ish plate.
Swimming towards velvet rays of light.
A child’s-laugh (bees). Sea mist.

Dad

Jasmine passion – reel.
Flowers in a lonely mind.
Illness for breakfast.

Cody

Children underfoot –
There is traffic in my house.
Toy guns. Cowboy hats.

Remember me

The weather that day. Rain and-then-it-stopped.
Flesh. Skin-on-skin’s-compass. Perfume. And more rain.
Keys to not buying post-apartheid things.

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