Seventeen-Syllable Odes
In the summer of 2016, Megan Waring delighted us with a poignant yet tongue-in-cheek collection of haikus. Enjoy two of these cheeky gems below, and pick up Pulp Literature Issue 11, Summer 2016 (on sale now till the end of August) for the rest.
Haikus for My Childhood Toys
Megan Waring
I fashioned houses
of stacked Pogs, my heart broken,
learned loss from slammers.
Furby won’t shut up.
Locked him in the top drawer
mouth full of panties.
Read the rest of these delightful haikus in Pulp Literature Issue 11, Summer 2016, on sale till the end of August.
Megan Waring is an assiociate lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, as well as a poet, playwright and fibre artist. She was the honored recipient of Virginia Tech’s Literary Award in 2010 and her work has appeared in NAILED Magazine, Salamander, The Legendary, Pulp Literature, and Germ Magazine, among others..
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