Haiku Poetry Awards Finalist - Dee Slavutin

Dee Slavutin recently retired from a forty year career in financial services in New York City. Her first book of free-verse poetry is titled Wingspan Search for Food. Her first haiku chapbook, Zen in Hand---Haiku Gusts is forthcoming to be published by Finishing Line press. Her poetry, haiku in particular, challenges her pursuit of compressed boundless self-expression.

Aging in Haiku by Dee Slavutin

3

Takes off her diaper

Fingers tie new shoelaces

Shares her toys with friends

13

Cherry breast buds bud

Something red between her legs

Girlhood bliss kiss

23

Her breasts command him

The mirror silver streams them

Touches womanhood

33

Flowing milk in breasts

Suckling children ignite love

Motherhood is born

43

Stretch-t-back sports bra

Homework, pay bills, walk dog, cook

Wide smiles in sleep

53

Topless on French beach

Marriage bed erupts again

Black lingerie heaped

63

Her breasts are removed

Bed, still, is always quiet

Questions not answered

73

Sunbathe on nude beach

Loud bed is never quiet

Answers come on wings

83

Now, there is no their

Closes her eyes to see him

No one to hold her

93

Puts on her diaper

Fingers can’t tie shoelaces

You can have her toys