Photography © Chad Parenteau

 

Post-Election Blues Haiku

red stains on ballots
a nation on life support
post-election blues

Brooklyn skyline
still blue, even after
the election

brown leaves turn orange
under blue November sky
my country at arms

 

Patricia Carragon is the editor of the new online journal, Sense and Sensibility Haiku. She hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology.

Chad Parenteau is Associate Editor of Oddball Magazine.