Out of Sync
by Sidney Bending, Margaret Rutley, and Michael Dylan Welch
Honourable mention in the Haiku Poets of Northern California’s 2022 rengay contest. Publication forthcoming in Mariposa in the fall of 2023. Originally written from July to September 2020, by email.
quiet on set
the director hollers
action Sidney
for the stuntman
extra padding Margaret
a jet fighter crosses
the clear blue sky . . .
old-time western Michael
barroom brawl
a break-away stool . . . doesn’t Sidney
aging starlet
lip-syncing
out of sync Margaret
at Grauman’s Chinese theatre
a mongrel lifts its leg Michael