I 
might submit 
to your terms 

for an oasis 
pack a 
suitcase 

filled 
with leeches 
a wooden glider 

wails in cold 
wind wings 
stretch 

in 
fire and 
thorn continent wide 

your voice is 
a Ginsu 
knife 

Poet’s Note:

Hay(na)ku: Filipino poet Vince Gotera coined the name for this three-line form. Filipino-American poet Eileen R. Tabios, who conceived the form in 2003, called it “the Pinoy Haiku”. Three lines, six words total, in 1-2-3 order. Or you can reverse the order. Multiple, alternating stanzas (1-2-3, then 3-2-1, or in the opposite order) form a hay(na)ku chain....

—Poem and Note are from pour a frigid moon by Jonathan Yungkans, an e-chapbook of short poems forthcoming this summer from MacQ Books.

Bio: Jonathan Yungkans