Photography © Chad Parenteau

 

Hotku for the 250th Anniversary

heatwave
crosses the nation—
the tyrant burns

 

temperature rising—
the smell
from his diaper

 

Patricia Carragon hosts the Brownstone Poets Reading Series and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She is the editor of Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal. Her latest jazz poetry collection is Stranger on the Shore (Human Error Publishing, 2026). Patricia lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Chad Parenteau is Associate Editor of Oddball Magazine.