The hike

is longer than expected, the uphill more up, and the downhill still to come

her sidelong glance stretching into sunset

:::

Fog

has swallowed the ocean and is moving across the fields toward my window, a slow-motion tsunami, so I imagine

out of nowhere a car alarm

Bio: Bob Lucky

Publisher’s Note:

Many thanks to Bob Lucky for introducing me to the one-bun poetic form! I went treasure-hunting online for more, but these poems appear to be especially rare, at least online. I did run across poet Patricia Prime’s interview in March 2008 of Jim Kacian, founder of Red Moon Press, in which he said:

“As a matter of taste, I find that I prefer to write short haibun. In fact, I invented a form I call one-bun. The premise is simple: the ‘prose’ (which precedes a single ‘poem’) can be no more than one sentence long. Of course, that sentence can be a Hemingwayian grunt or a Jamesian excursis, so it’s not really all that limiting” (Contemporary Haibun Online, Vol. 4, No. 1):
https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/chohtmlarchive/articles/Kacian_interview.html

Nine one-bun poems by Kacian are available at Ray’s Web:
https://www.raysweb.net/haibunresources/reprints_html/kacinan_theOnebun.html

See also Kacian’s collection of one-line haiku and haibun, where I leave off, which was published in The Netherlands in 2010; a PDF version of the book is available at The Haiku Foundation:
https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/7e0f3dafee3546b56aa7cc773e5803be.pdf