Writer’s Corner: Haiku
By Robert Moyer
Her little foot
held out to tickle
again
Tram doors
open and close
the smell of rain
Her finger and thumb
slip into her mouth
the last bite
Daily cigarette
the blue of the sky
deepens
Wisconsin roadhouse
lots of bellies
up to the bar
The old man
and his VW bus
slow to start
Grandad’s workshop
everything in its place
but him
Neighbor’s new fence
making our neighborhood
great again
Robert Moyer received his BA (English Literature) from Kenyon College and his MFA (Directing) from Tulane University. He took up performance poetry in 1998 and has since won many poetry slams, including the 2011 and 2012 Poetry Slams conducted by the Poetry Council of North Carolina. In 1999 he won a Head to Head Haiku Slam and began writing haiku in earnest. He has since had hundreds of poems published in the major haiku journals, most recently in JAR OF RAIN, the best haiku in English for 2020. Moyer is slammaster of the Piedmont Slam, and resident poet and theater artist at the Arts-Based School. He conducts a monthly workshop on writing haiku called HOW TO HAIKU, which beginners are urged to attend on meetup.com. They can find out how haiku is more than 5-7-5.