violating curfew

a haiku

sneaking out for a
smoke will some pig shoot never
any dull moments

Valid Concern

wonder if
they’ll take a hundred
my dad asked
at the drive-thru
I said
don’t feel like
getting kneeled on
today
paid with
my debit

this lack of hairdressers

a haiku

made lions of us
with these manes and soon you shall
hear every one roar

Hitching

trying to get back
to my car
parked five miles
from where crowds
were gathering
so I could make it home
before curfew
stuck my thumb out
but the flow of cars
from that direction
all continued on
making a point
not to look at me
...those who aren’t
out here today
aren’t interested in helping
anyone but themselves

we need you out here

a haiku

while we were praying
I pointed my sign up at
God oi where you at

A graduate of the University of Southern California’s Cinema-Television Production program, Jerome Berglund has published short stories in Paragon Press’s Veisalgia and the Watershed Review, a play in Iris Literary Journal, and poetry in Abstract Magazine, the Dewdrop, Wild Roof, Lychee Rind, deLuge, GRIFFEL, and Ulalume Lighthouse. He recently interviewed the author of Bird Box for the literary journal where he manages edits; it has published original writing and poetry from a poet laureate, a Green Party presidential nominee, and a world-renowned citizen journalist.