Après Nous

by Bob Brill

in a junk-filled yard
a rusted car on cinder blocks
no tires no doors
through the round hole in a fender
where once a headlight gleamed
a sunflower opens its petals

Bob Brill is a retired computer programmer now devoting his energies to writing fiction, memoir, and poetry. He has published fiction in Lunarosity, Bewildering Stories, Flashquake, M-Brane SF, and other journals, as well as short memoir pieces in Flashquake. His poems have appeared in Simply Haiku, Prune Juice, 3Lights Gallery, 3Lights Journal, Aphelion, The Battered Suitcase, and Frogpond. He is the featured senryu poet in the Autumn 2009 issue of Simply Haiku.
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