Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he's written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in Bottle Rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His collections Bathtub Poems, Funny Pages and Eleusinian Solutions were released by Setu, Meat For Tea and Mōtus Audāx press, a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Yavanika.

Easy read of the poems in the images above:

Tenure

Not just resplendent plumed songbirds have their wings clipped, in ancient times the indispensable smithy was lamed by tribal elders to prevent his desertion, monopolize exploitation.

under
the crown avoiding
mizzle

Again

thinking about how in many cultures exposure to death is considered to render one sullied temporarily for a certain period, why people dust themselves with salt after returning from a burial might have a fever can’t for the life of me seem to track down a thermometer to tell for certain who can say what tomorrow brings

a rope of ants
with several knots
compost heap

jawbone

poem is written in the shape of a jawbone and appears over a black and white image of trees.

question
what ISN'T
the grasshopper 
containing 
the Cuyahoga