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