Haikubes – April 10th, 2020

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I still love you, but I had to shake things up, dear!

A second day of proverbial “dancing in the rain” and acting like a “rebel without a cause” even though I do have a valid reason!

I chose to roll not one, but TWO   . . .

Taebo_Count Em
COUNT ‘EM!

blank Haikubes and called them “Freedom Rolls” (gawd, I could really go for a cinnamon roll too, though!).

Mwa ha ha ha ha!

I needed to change up the monotony, you see? 🙂

Theme and Direction:

Freedom

Trapped in sunlight

Dust glints like stellar remnants

Tiny galaxy

 

Published by Monique Desir

Monique L. Desir was born and raised in Florida. She's an educator who hasn’t quite figured out how to escape the Sunshine State and is surviving and thriving within its alligator-infested clutches with her husband and three sons. The daughter of West Indian parents (Haitian father, Jamaican mother), she loves learning about different cultures, languages and people. She binge-watches forensic television shows and Soca dances until she glows! Why? So she can have seconds on cake! Her stories have been published in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Nightlight Podcast, Colorism Essays and Poems anthology Volume 2, and Rivière Blanche's 2019 Dimension Uchronie short story anthology, and forthcoming in The Dread Machine. Find her on Twitter @moniquedesir.

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