Jim Krotzman
Born: 1949, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, USA
Residence: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA
Jim Krotzman is retired after teaching for 36 years in Wisconsin and Colorado. Krotzman realized a lifelong dream when he purchased 3.5 acres of woodland on Ten-Mile Lake near Hackensack, Minnesota. The Chippewa National Forest is his backyard. He is building a cabin there.
dental appointment
grandpa’s football helmet
with no facemark
met Thoreau
in the woods today—
tongue tied
golf course
slices and hooks show
on the pro shop girl
work break for the freight to pass the sway of the boxcars
Kerouac’s haiku
I fall trying to kick
the fridge door shut
the cabinetmaker
his whiskers
left in the sink
Sex at 70
Worrying whether she
Is too easy
steamy love scene
my teenage daughter gets
a bowl of ice cream
the string collected
now trains morning glories
up the clothesline post
Timepieces: Haiku Week At-A-Glance, July 8, 1996
while entertaining…
the cobweb in the corner
traps my attention
Brussel Sprout, 1994
after my arrest
the thump of a neighbor
beating her rugs