Bio
Bob Lucky is a regular contributor to haiku and tanka journals in the US, Europe, and Australia.
His works in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous
international journals, including Flash, Rattle, Modern Haiku, KYSO Flash, Haibun Today,
and Contemporary Haibun Online (where he edits content).
Lucky's chapbook of haibun, tanka prose, and prose poems, entitled
Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) was an honorable mention in the
Touchstone Book Awards. He now lives and works in Saudi Arabia.
Bob Lucky
The Same Old Puzzle Puzzles Again
a cocoon a blanket a ragged sheet of plastic wrap crumpled shiny aluminum
foil damp paper towels (cradling young asparagus, cilantro, etc.) collapsed
canvas tent material (or tents) a sleeping bag a duvet a quilt corrugated tin
twisted by a tornado (and wrapped around the trunk of a pecan tree) a paper cone
filled with popcorn a seaweed cone filled with rice and raw salmon a plastic
garbage bag wriggling with day-old kittens cupped hands dripping water a
clay pot filled with nothing
waiting for the bus
my arms wrapped
around myself