13 Haiku About My Husband and
Current State of Happiness

     he has a lizard
in his mouth         it flicks         it flicks
     seismic me he sends

i understand how
   to conduct a proper love affair
on paper

medium pasta shells garlic cheese broccoli saturday dinner

i caught my husband
             pretending to be a fly
                          buzzing around shit

                          i love my husband's

                          pajama bottoms i en-

                          vision his demise

wounded prehistoric beasts whine or
a husband practices trumpet

hot tea milk and honey hot tea milk and honey hot tea milk and hon

i did not paint you
      while i dreamt about albert
goldbarth i did not

happy all day i     have been leaping off of fat           margins into
                                                                                                space

scream into snowbanks you get
fogged glasses also great views of nothing

he smokes smells lets out
noxious fumes from his butt hole
wrinkled by much use

i caught my husband again buzzing near the trash in his underwear

                          he has a good face
                          i love him even as i
                          buy life insurance

Mary Kane
Beloit Poetry Journal
Volume 56, Number 2
Winter 2005/06

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