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      March 5, 2024The ‘L’ WordKelly Sargent

      plucking my eyebrows
      he likes me
      he likes me not
       
       
       
      chocolate fondue for two—
      double-dipping
      the banana
       
       
       
      their candy hearts—
      I swallow more
      sweet nothings
       
       
       
      a single boa feather
      floats in the coffee—
      the morning after
       
       
       
      fallen petals—
      how he used to
      call me pretty
       
       
       
      threadbare—
      my heart no longer
      on my sleeve
       
       
       
      Valentine’s Day—
      without a word
      he takes out the trash
       
       
       
      anniversary dinner—
      the harvest moon
      in the ladle

      from Prompt Poem of the Month

      Note from the series editor, Katie Dozier

      Prompt: Write a haiku sequence that talks about love without mentioning it by name.

      “Kelly’s poem gathers many familiar symbols of love, such as candy hearts, and slices them with the haiku’s knife. The result is a sequence that captures the breadth of romantic love and even takes us out for fondue in the process.”

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