Alan Pizzarelli

The Canary Funeral

New book of selected works by Alan Pizzarelli,”The Canary Funeral” PURCHASE BOOK NOW From the Author’s Note: Back in 1920, the grandfather of one of my childhood friends held a huge funeral for his pet canary, “Jimmy.” The funeral was attended by more than ten thousand people and included a small white coffin, pallbearers, a hearse, and a 15-piece band playing a solemn dirge. The plaintive melody was accompanied by tears of laughter and merriment while moving through the streets of Little Italy in Newark,…

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Amusement Park

haiku and senryu

 

the tattoo’d man
walks onto the crowded beach

 

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City Beat

urban haiku, senryu, and sequences
by Alan Pizzarelli

from City Beat

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Early afternoon in Ojo Caliente …

      Early afternoon in Ojo Caliente,      soaked our bones in hot mineral springs ~ stayed 3 days in adobe hut,             marveling the shapes   of mesas ~ “cathedrals of rock” ~ crow’s caw      wings a ‘glide on wind currents           under towering clouds ~ spotted a coyote this morning on the high edge of the mesa ridge ~    jack rabbit below            standing still    staring ~ hiking along a foot worn path              winding along desert trail ~ cacti abloom, yellow flowerets, dried shrubs, blackened lightening struck trees…