Pottery Shards
myth in deep mountains the soft horns of mist
reveals a crack in the god’s golden thigh
after talk of labyrinths longing to see the ocean
never healed from white spiders posing riddles
so hungry in this dark place what harm in six seeds
Green Splinters
a seed forces itself into the archaic organ overnight
sweetness
of grass in black soil
enough of male gods
a tasting menu of leaf types for your caterpillar parts
In a New City
the usual
longing
to be
a burnt map
charcoal sky in a jar the factory’s baby teeth
one road
out
when clouds
lift the
sharp mountain
∞
David Boyer has been published in Adelaide Literary Magazine, Headway, and Visitant, as well as haiku journals including Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, is/let and Roadrunner.
