Editor’s Note: Last year, The Peorian
contributing poet, Lois J. Funk, was
honored with an invitation to join
17
other women, in writing a book
of Japanese senryu – the first ever
book of senryu written entirely by
women. Pieces of Her Mind was pub-
lished in 2012 by Omega Publications,
Palm Springs, Calif.
granddaughter teaches
what I’d forgotten
about playing jacks
HER LAST
I LOVE YOU
I HE
SI
TATE
TO ERASE
MY SISTER’S VOICE
carried through the crowd
naked mannequin
stares straight ahead
wrong number
we talk
for half an hour
about being
snowed in
last night’s prom balloons
reduced to dancing
on their own strings
whit
e-
robed altar boy
lights seven candles
with both sole
s
blinking
lost, he doubles back
without asking directions
man behind the wheel
tintype portrait
someone’s ancestor
with a price
on his head
