Mittens

you know conditions are arduous and hostile when the whole liquor store parking lot is backed into their spaces, in case engines need jumping make it home barely reverse in my spot as well hoping to get this beast starting still each morning too

a goat
climbs down the mountain
grudgingly bidden

Jerome Berglund has many poems in a variety of forms, including haiku, haibun, and tanka exhibited or forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Bottle Rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collection of poetry, Bathtub Poems, was just released by Setu Press.