TEXAS HAIKUS by Jeff Callaway

TEXAS HAIKUS

catfish are biting
everything but my hook
in Cedar Creek Lake

by the campfire, drunk
i’m watching the spiders jump
over Texas hills

out in West Texas
echoes of my loneliness
go unheard for miles

sexy country girls
with tan legs in cowboy boots
have Texas size hearts

watching funny cars
at Seven Points drag-strip
laughing with my Dad

weeds, growing in green
murky Trinity water
like screaming pine trees

Cedar Creek Chrissie’s
cotton panties, her blue jeans
at night call to me

Apocalypse Pub
Satan is San Angelo
dust-devils catch fire

snake skin cowboy boots
i peel from my road-worn hooves
pick-up truck broke down

Buddy Holly sings
i watch armadillos play
mockingbirds fly by

six days and nights with
dope whores in honkytonks of
Gun Barrel City

Texas , the third coast
with hot night and ice cold beer
spring break girls go wild

mixed drinks as Hank sings
at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth
live country music

The Lignite City
Malakoff , Texas is a
coal miner’s tombstone

wired oil-field roughneck’s
sweating in the sun, drilling
deep beads of black gold

bull riders all amped
rodeo clowns camping out
saviors in waiting

stressed out soul explodes
lost in this West Texas gloom
i pray peace comes soon



NOTE: HAIKUS both eastern and western