Marilyn Fleming
Born 1945 in Mauston Wisconsin
Currently reside in Pewaukee Wisconsin.
Between 1988 and 1989 I discovered haiku and had a fair amount of success getting published. However in 1989 my writing career took a twenty plus year halt while I devoted my time and creativity to my demanding career and to my family. My dream was to write again after I retired. In 2010 I was back at it and now I primarily write haiku and tanka. I have a new interest in haiga and am experimenting with brush painting.
URL: marilynflemingpoet.wordpress.com
the slamming door
—afterwards
what I should have said
Blithe Spirit 25.2 Spring 2015
ebb and flow
daughters one by one
to the rag bag
Cicada Vol. IV, No. 4 Issue 13 1989
for a moment
the flare of her nostrils
pulling in the sea
Modern Haiku Vol. XIX, No. 3 Autumn 1988
roadster showing thigh
gear jammer stuck alongside
rolling down the ‘I’
Modern Haiku Vol. XIX, No. 2 Summer 1988
a fado artist
i expose my soul
to strangers
second thoughts
—the DNR band
missing from her wrist
the slit
beneath her navel
a butterfly knot
our daily commute
night and day
passing each other
wedding day—
composing his vows
at the ironing board
summer heat
—beat cop
licks a rocky road
complacent woman
—a pebble
in her shoe
smoke signals
my wet blanket
of denial
break times
inhaling pages
the way I smoked
teaching literacy
again a no-show—
I leave a note
hoods up
bitter cold
waiting for a charge