Ginger Shot — 5 Haiku

I’m on a roll:

A tiny cafe she ordered a ginger shot my lips tasted hers

I held her to me scandinavian sunshine the bell rang midday

The music we loved Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” I hear while I drive

I drive; I listen, I was lucky to have it it’s a lottery

Privileged, grateful I have known a kind of love she wanted a man

My keyboard is spattered with blood:

Read this poignant story of returning to your family’s past:

And these Algerian women whose images made me weep: