John Landry, US

 

 

Haiku   sitting still as stone too hot to sweat mosquitoes sweat pools in my shoes     constant dripping of the faucet to the pool— a million moons     Frau Strathmann's porch— cats do their morning yoga and roses open     first rain in two months— dozens of crickets dance on my welcome mat     the sound                of hard rain falling                on banana leaves     papayas ripen beyond my reach— so, I eat mango     waking from a dream of first snow on the cedars–– white hairs on my chest!     thinking I was sharp learning the knife is sharper— the dishwasher's blood     since our last visit 10,000 birds have landed on my mother's face     About John Landry, US   John Landry is the poet laureate of his birthplace New Bedford, Massachusetts. He is the founding editor of Patmos Press, collision magazine, and served as a contributing editor to New College Review and the 50th anniversary anthology of Beatitude, the historic San Francisco poetry journal. He hosts the poetry series Whaling City Review LIVE. His books, coming in 2010, include Sconticut: the reaches, Whaleopolis/Orpheus in Whaletown, and ROAD DOES NOT END. He has read his work at the Library of Congress at the invitation of Gwendolyn Brooks.