My Work in the January 2021 issue of Failed Haiku

by

John J. Dunphy

my amnesia issues largely forgotten

***

dining alone

my server wishes me

‘merry christmas’

as I open

my fortune cookie

***

Feast of St. Stephen

my neighbor and I celebrate

by getting stoned

***

‘huh?’

I reply when asked why I’m here —

ear doctor’s receptionist

John J. Dunphy’s poetry collections include Zen Koanhead, Stellar Possibilities, Touching Each Tree, pagan rites, Old Soldiers Fading Away and Dark Nebulae.