Harrison Fisher

 

Haiku Licking Stick

remembering the Hardest Working Man

 

Heavily-trafficked
aisle where I sit at work,
but womanly dearth.

 

Souped-up new phones are
being installed to monitor
what we do all day.

 

Here is my response:
“Let a man come in and do
The Popcorn.” —James Brown

 

A Weather of Many Blankets

“When 10,000 Bodies Hit 5,000 Blankets”
--ad copy for Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)

 

The new weather girl
appears with her eyes wide and fixed
and her arms outstretched,

hands reaching
toward Camera 1,

lurching forward
like movie host Vampira
in the shambolic graveyard scene with Tor in Plan 9.

The rainstorms north of here have upset the new hire
and thrown the forecast
off balance.

She appears to reach for me. Like the weather itself,
I am unattainable, as 10,000 bodies
hit 5,000 blankets

all at once in the romance
of predator and prey,

and the horror
of dumb-luck
party beach.

 

Harrison Fisher had poems in both 2025 issues of Misfitmagazine.  In 2026, he has new work in dadakuku, BlazeVOX Journal, Eastern Iowa Review, Lucky Lizard Journal, Poetry Super Highway, Rundelania, and Stone Circle Review.