Haiku by Jon Petruschke, Pt. 1

don’t be shy
she whispers into
his open fly

I turn you up
so the neighbors
can hear

midwinter night
can’t get far enough
into her

Jon Petruschke is a psychotherapist and author of two books of poetry. The first is Dream Haiku: Poems from Nights and Naps. The second is the recently released Cherry Blossom: Erotic Haiku. He began writing Cherry Blossom during the pandemic, melding haiku with the erotic as a remedy to the angst and uncertainty of the times. A regular contributor to Modern Haiku and tsuri-dōrō, Jon’s poetry and fiction has appeared in over forty other publications. He resides in Portland, Maine with his wife and two sister cats.

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