Paint Chips Haiku by Jerome Berglund
Paint Chips Haiku
by Jerome Berglund
a unifying
theme is the hardest thing to
settle upon, ‘ppears
out of fashion
wallpaper, busy plastered
aesthetic; pleasing
shell-shocked vets only
talk about wartime glories
of ages long past
there’s more than one way
to deftly skin a mole and
desecrate its pelt
whisk and then strain, are
lumps in this batter despite
the flour’s sifting
wooden grave marker
dirt stained slick with lichen text
indecipherable
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A graduate of the University of Southern California’s Cinema-Television Production program, Jerome Berglund spent a picaresque decade in entertainment before returning to the midwest where he was born and raised. For the last several years he has lived a relatively quiet life, spending his time reflecting, exploring what he learned over the course of a somewhat checkered young adulthood, via writing, poetry and fine art photography. Berglund has previously published haikus in Abstract Magazine, Barstow and Grand, Lychee Rind, Moonstone Press, a Quillkeepers anthology, Raw Art Review, Snapdragon, and the Write Launch. He is furthermore an established, award-winning fine art photographer, whose black and white pictures have been exhibited in galleries across New York, Minneapolis, and Santa Monica. Jerome is author to several haiku collections and chapbooks, including the recently released ;OSCOPY. These selections are taken from a cycle of poetry exploring personal as well as universal themes and experiences through the description of striking objects and visual artworks which communicate them tellingly.
