Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel

Fire: a Haiku

Heat prickling on face,

Ink shadows, translucent page

Treaty burns to ash

This is a Haiku in response to Haiku Hub’s Prompt: Fire

Owen Banner spent his childhood baptized in the red dirt of Mandeville, Jamaica and his adolescence in the neon morass of Manila in the Philippines. He’s lived in or traveled to countries all over the planet, nourished by their people and cultures. These diverse voices plant the seeds of his stories, which twist genre and seek new perspectives. Discover more at owenbanner.com