Literary Orphans

Early Winter Haikus by Ray Nessly

ON NO LONGER GOLDEN POND

 

Young boy skips flat stone

 

Black Labrador, retrieving:

 

leaps, sinks, drowns, & rots

 

 

 

THE MILKMAN RINGS NO MORE

  1. a) Trad.      b) American Sentence

 

Our milkman’s now dust,

 

as are one thousand bottles

 

and one long-gone porch

 

 

Our milkman, his bottles, our porch: all gone to dust under sour sky
 

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Ray Nessly hails from Seattle and lives near San Diego with his wife and their two cats. He is forever at work on a novel: If A Machine Lands In The Forest. He hopes it precedes, in publication, that of his obituary. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Literary Orphans, Thrice, Boston Literary Magazine, Apocrypha & Abstractions, MadHat, Yellow Mama, Do Some Damage, and other places of note.

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–Art by Barbara Florczyk

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