A clutch of haiku by Murray Moulding. I met Murray many years ago at a poetry reading against George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, but we became close only when we found ourselves in a small group of likeminded poets that meets monthly to share work, jabber, commiserate, kvetch, joke around, and nudge our own poems toward a state of aesthetic satori.
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Cleared customs at dawn.
Oh repellant afterlife,
not one thing has changed.
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Erotic nightmare
stands to reason with a whip.
It’s a long story.
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Marie Antoinette—
a shampoo for the masses.
Ahead of its time.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
plays tennis with the It girls.
Then it was autumn.
[from The Motor Pool: Haiku and Scribbles
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Murray Moulding grew up in Winnetka, Il. and attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He taught creating writing at Monmouth College, University of Montana adult education program, Tillamook Bay Community College, and Red Rocks Community College, west of Denver. His poems have appeared on paper in Kansas Quarterly, Mississippi Review, and Mad Blood, and online His fiction has appeared in Chicago Review, December, Kansas Quarterly, Mad Blood, Mississippi Valley Review, and Viva. Poems online can be found in Shampoo (here, here and here), Riding the Meridian, and elsewhere. The Motor Pool is his fifth book of poems.
Joe, where’s Murray Moulding? We were classmates and friends at the U. of Iowa many, many moons ago. Wanted to get in touch. Hope you can get back to me, one way or another