(UNTITLED SPECULATIVE HAIKU) • by Greg Schwartz

green pasture
zombie cows graze
on the farmer

Greg Schwartz is the staff cartoonist for SP Quill Magazine and a member of the Haiku Society of America. Some of his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, New York Quarterly, and the 2008 Red Moon Anthology. Spec House of Poetry has just released a broadside of his haiku titled “bird ku,” available at http://spechouseofpoetry.blogspot.com.


Posted on April 16, 2009 in Japanese Short Forms, Poems, Speculative
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8 Responses to “(UNTITLED SPECULATIVE HAIKU) • by Greg Schwartz”


  1. Paul A. Freeman Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 12:18 am

    Nothing that funny or thought-provoking here! And I’m a zombie fan.

  2. Roberta SchulbergGoro Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 7:38 am

    Is this a threat that the farmer will be “pushing up daisies”? (For all the numbers of little ones, that means “buried underground”)

  3. Kaolin Fire Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    A swing and a HIT! Cow tipping and RUN!

  4. Sharon Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    Mad cows! Mad cows! Muuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

  5. Jonathan Pinnock Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Impressively unexpected third line, there. Very tightly written.

  6. sjhigbee Says:
    April 17th, 2009 at 7:49 am

    Thank you for making me laugh out loud at a very fraught time…

  7. Greg Schwartz Says:
    April 20th, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    thanks everyone for the comments!

  8. Nick Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    Granted, nothing profound or anything here–but it got a chuckle out of me too.

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