Johnny Baranski
Born 1948, Chicago, Illinois
Currently lives in Vancouver, Washington USA
Johnny Baranski has been writing haiku and its related forms for over forty years and has been widely published and anthologized. He is the author of several chapbooks including Pencil Flowers: Jail Haiku, Convicts Shoot The Breeze, and just a stone's throw. His most recent collection Blossoming Pear was published as a broadside by Lilliput Review in 2013.
one brother leans left
the other leans right
gale winds
too loud
at Mass this morning
her spring kimono
casual Friday
dressed down
by the boss
used cars
the salesman's polyester
sports jacket
used up jalopies
in the wrecking yard
my aching joints
Multiverses Spring 2012
empty field
no matter which way I turn
pissing in the wind
sweet and sour pork
eating alone
at a table for two
sunning itself on a river rock her string bikini
speed date I come then go
so drunk I let her have her way with me mosquito
Chaste Moon -
my virginity left
at the altar
origami
elephant --
a paper weight
her sexy caboose a train whistle
Oreo cookie
my split
personality
head shop
a family run
joint
for a
good time
Cialis
sirens far out my burning bridges
tundra…
the off-road path of
a Toyota
a walk-off home run
up and over
the prison wall
white supremacist
his obituary
doesn't mention it
'Round Midnight
a 5-7-5 haiku
so square
the Seven Samurai
could not have saved it
Hiroshima
warm sake tonight I have all the answers
searchlights
the prison yard scanned
for viruses
Trinity the Bomb hijacked a religion
barfly
his marriage
on the rocks