Denis M. Garrison is a poet and editor. His well-received collection of free and formal verse, Sailor in the Rain and Other Poems, is currently in print as are his haiku collections, Hidden River, Eight Shades of Blue, and Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir. Garrison edits the respected journals Modern English Tanka and Ambrosia: Journal of Fine Haiku. He owns and operates the MET Press, a small publishing house specializing in fine verse.
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Haiku Noir on Lust



this caveman rhythm
our common pulse more needful
than water or salt

                                                                  roundness in my palm,
                                                                  silky smoothness drives my blood
                                                                  and, ah!, the rough spots

                                                                                                                                    your heat on my thigh
                                                                                                                                    up from the depths
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from Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir
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