Book of the Week: 21 Erotic Haiku for Samantha

Michael John Phillips is one of the most enigmatic poets ever to adopt haiku as his main mode of expression. Throughout his series of half a dozen haiku chapbooks he alighted upon a single theme—female beauty, in its many manifestations—and explored it, sometimes with monotony, sometimes with flair, often with humor, but utterly unlike anyone else ever has.

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.

Adoration XVII
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Samantha’s Emot-

Luv-ly Lotus li-
Li, so Femme like — ah y’r soft
Flamingo-feath TUCHES !!!

SAMANTHA
WiLd ting, i wurship
yu ’s m’ FOIST acceptur;
RoSe ’f RoSe, ROSE !!!

Samantha as Goil
BEATITUDE Beaut,
y’ buoy dis Bopper t’ y’ —
beatitude BEAUT !!!

ATTIRE III
Bl’ck Cyr WEB nyl’n,
Rio silky string BiKiN —
Sex tog Nirvana !

fur Samanth
red, black butterflies
green, maroon, blue butterflies
turquoise butterflies