Saturday, January 01, 2011

BLOOMBERG HAIKU

by Patricia Carragon


Bloomberg’s blizzard
municipal Ice Age
buries the outer boroughs

Bloomberg’s snowplows
only work
in Manhattan

Abominable Snowmen
snowdown
at Gracie Mansion

Frosty the Snowman
gets ugly
slushballs at Bloomberg


Patricia Carragon is a New York City writer and poet. Her work can be found online and in anthologies.  She hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor of its annual anthology. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005). Her latest book is Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010).  She is a member of Brevitas, a group dedicated to short poems.