Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund, nominated last year for the Touchstone awards and Pushcart Prize, has many haiku, haibun and haiga exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bottle Rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collection of poetry Bathtub Poems was just released by Setu Press. Jerome recommends the National Lawyers Guild.

Metanoia

             dried seaweed
             the happiness 
             of accidents

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"Keister It" and "Work Environment"

As their ranks dwindled a pile grew, and he sat vigil upon its promontory cross-legged like a yogi, assured those who’d successfully escaped his clutches would not send aid for them cornered remaining.

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Three Photohaiku, May 2022

Bird Bath, a photohaikuSweltering Heat, a photohaiku

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"broke and entered," "faced with the hydra’s stumps," and "can disavow your devil race"

it takes a flashing tongue to cauterize
the many spurting necks
before their progeny reach the ground
and sprout reinforcements;

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