Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund has published many haiku, haiga and haibun, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku.

His full-length collections Bathtub Poems, Funny Pages, and Eleusinian Solution were recently released by Setu, Meat For Tea,

and Motus Audax press.

Microchapbooks of his work can be downloaded from the Origami Poems Project and a mixed media eBook showcasing his

fine art photography is available now from Fevers of the Mind.

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► Jerome Berglund's microchaps & poems are available below. Download the single-page PDF by clicking the title.

	Origami Microchap
sleeping
Click title to download microchap NOTES: (* “The Spanish dancer is a very large and colorful sea slug. If the animal is disturbed, it unfolds its edges and can swim through contractions and undulations of the body to move away from the disturbing element. Its common name comes from this particular defense.” “FIGUREHEAD is the carved figure on a ship’s bow.” * “One of the most famous haiku is by Matsuo Basho, a renowned Japanese poet from the Edo period: “The old pond. A frog jumps in. Sound of water.” **** “A writ of habeas corpus generally is a judicial order forcing law enforcement authorities to produce a prisoner they are holding, and to justify the prisoner’s continued confinement.”) •	tin frog only one hereabouts surface unbroken * seaweed on the turtle figurehead washes up * heron swallows small fish whole	belly of the gray whale habeas corpus * beneath the clouded surface glimpses of movement * spanish dancer releasing the juice in a peach • Jerome Berglund © 2025 Poems within previously appeared in: Cold Moon, Haiku Dialogue, Ice Floe Press, Piker Press, Unlikely Stories
rock & roll
Click title to download microchap Cover by Jerome Berglund •	many lights in the fog, and a hospital gown hibiscus rears up sticks out a long red tongue and hisses straining against harpoons won’t succumb	distant shore — gather on beach squinting, signal with mirrors trampled grass past the ghosts of lions retinal scan patchy clouds • Jerome Berglund © 2024
fly fishing
Click title to download microchap Cover: 'Sky" by Jerome Berglund •	SPRING aiming for presentable – fluffing the pillows SUMMER in the garden friar and larks commune with lichen Poems within previous appeared in: Black and White Haiga, Cold Moon, Haiku Dialogue, HaikUniverse, Scarlet Dragonfly FALL shadow play across the cornstalks one outline passes another	WINTER unfinished tree fort with no platform still we climb NEW YEAR free standing ashtray wrapped in honeysuckle – forgiven trespasses SEASONLESS bunches of ants carrying great twig the village it takes • Jerome Berglund © 2023

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