17. Poetry by Jerome Berglund
Art by Paulo Sayeg | Brasil
Mesopotamia
[a scifaiku sequence]
farmers market
— a melon
with tentacles!
Art by Paulo Sayeg | Orumila
opens
on a corpse . . . even
redemption story
trampled grass
past the ghosts
of lions
many lights
in a fog, and a
hospital gown
shaky cam
assembling the
found footage
doctor
the monster after all
updating texts
straining
against harpoons
won’t succumb
in black
moving furniture through the dark
mission control
Art by Paulo Sayeg | Eruanoturno
exotic vegetation
amidst disorder
bright explosions
steps closed
mother hen
leads them through
Jerome Berglund
Jerome Berglund has many speculative short fictions, poetry, and dramas published and forthcoming in Five Fleas, Flying Saucer Poetry Review, Haiku Pond, Hearth and Coffin, Horror Senryu Journal, Lothlorien, Lotus Tree Literary Review, Meat For Tea, Otoroshi, Scifaikuest, Setu Bilingual Journal, Siren’s Call, Starlight SciFaiku Review, Synchronized Chaos, Zen Space.