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| Issue 32: | June 2026 |
| Haibun: | 97 words |
By Barbara Krasner
Leftovers
We talk about departure. But you only have one ticket. For yourself. You leave me there with no money and no place to go. Your car service whisks you away while I hold a pan of roast turkey. It burns my fingers. I remain, my mouth open, in complete disbelief that you are abandoning me. I gaze at the turkey. I want to rip off its crispy skin, yours, too. To see how your mind works. How you melt minutes. Impale them on bare branches.
sheets of sandpaper move us in wrong directions scarabs scaling time
Barbara Krasner
is a New Jersey-based author of ten poetry collections, including the ekphrastic Poems of the Winter Palace (Bottlecap Press, 2025), The Night Watch (Kelsay Books, 2025), Insomnia: Poems After Lee Krasner (Dancing Girl Press, 2026), The Wanderers (Shanti Arts, forthcoming 2026), and Memory Collector (Kelsay Books, forthcoming 2027). Individual poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Caesura, Cimarron Review, The Ekphrastic Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Main Street Rag, Nimrod, and elsewhere.
Author’s website: https://www.barbarakrasner.com/
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Six prose poems by Barbara Krasner in The Mackinaw (10 February 2025): “Kintsugi”; “The Memory Collectors”; “Shock”; “Alphabet Vulgaris”; “Perseus in the Fourth Grade”; and “Blades of Memory Grass” (after Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World)
⚡ My Mother Could Write Lines for Fortune Cookies by Krasner in ONE ART (19 October 2024)
⚡ Author’s Interview with Barbara Krasner by Mirta Ines Trupp in her blog (7 April 2021)
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