Randy Brooks
Bun in the Oven
pregnant belly
button nippled out
no photographs!
work all day
the phone such a poor
umbilical cord
blizzard letting up
down on one knee I tie
my pregnant wife's boots
butting in line
with her pregnant belly
eating for two
date night
spying parents with babies
everywhere we go
Bio
Dr. Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, where he teaches courses on haiku and Japanese poetics. He and his wife, Shirley Brooks, are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of Mayfly haiku magazine. His most recent books include Walking the Fence: Selected Tanka and The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku: A Reader Response Approach.