Jim Burke is a native of Limerick, Ireland. His poems have been published in The Crannog Poetry Journal, The Hong Kong Review, Live Encounters, The Shamrock Haiku Journal and The Stony Thursday Book, which he co-founded with John Liddy. He is a member of the Irish Haiku Society and is on the committee of the Limerick Writers’ Centre.
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
The leak in your breathing/ tube makes a cartoon squeak./ It takes two nurses, silent/ as nuns, to place you/ in my arms...
If I have already/ gone insane/ but I want to get/ crazier yet,/ what’s my move?/ Go outsane?
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