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torrential rain…
an errant UFO perches
on her umbrella
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star wars…
fireflies fight over
a hooked moon
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2 A.M.
first an UFO
then celestial vampires
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truce…
an extraterrestrial butterfly kisses
Buddha’s forehead
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sparks of the snake’s fangs
through the fig leaves…
the Milky Way
About the Poet
Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014), Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015), and Austere Lights (Locofo Chaps: an imprint of Moria Books, 2017). For more, visit aliznaidi.blogspot.com.
What a brilliant set of imaginative short verse poems (haiku/senryu/scifaiku). A wonderful discovery!
warm regards,
Alan
Alan Summers
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