Haiku | “fields buxom with snow”

February 4, 2016 by Peter Galen Massey

sleeping winter fields / buxom with snow summer will / make sigh with her warmth

Posted in Haiku | Tagged haiku, Poems | 1 Comment

on February 19, 2016 at 3:49 pm | Reply Peter Galen Massey

Massey Grade: C+

Massey Comment: I guess this one is okay. The fact that it is a sex poem knocks its grade down although this judgment will be a surprise to anyone who actually knows me. The “buxom” part is the most interesting element – the rest follows obviously enough. Calling summer a “her” strikes me as a gimmick and a way of avoiding the whole sexist morass “tyranny of the male gaze” thing, although believing I have avoid it is likely just a desperate delusion.