Marshall Bood
Born: 1980 Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada
Resides: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Marshall Bood’s debut collection is Spring Cleaning (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021).
continuing
to advertise …
street garbage
Modern Haiku 53.1, Winter-Spring 2022
ruined building –
the doghouse in the shade
empty too
bottle rockets #48, February 2023
flower pots
moved indoors …
summer storm
Akitsu Quarterly, Winter 2020
summer night –
bikers lounging
in the parking lot
Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2020
Xmas morning –
the pigeons have left
crosses in the snow
a ball of snow
twitches
then hops away
farmers market …
a child peers
into a storm grate
Modern Haiku 52.3, Autumn 2021
late autumn —
the path mostly
to myself again
Hedgerow #133, Autumn 2020
the frog statue
contemplating
the spring puddle
bottle rockets #38, February 2018
summer afternoon …
her kids chase jackrabbits
from the yard
early spring –
teens shoveling
the skateboard park
Acorn 43, Fall 2019
spring morning –
a bald man
shines his Harley
Akitsu Quarterly, Fall 2018
sunny coffeehouse –
she thanks me
for watching her laptop
bottle rockets #39, August 2018
freezing rain –
smokers outside
their designated area
The Heron’s Nest-Volume XXI, Number 1:March 2019
thin ice ...
human footprints
across the lake
Presence 61, July 2018
the pedestrian bridge
creaking worse ...
summer storm
Akitsu Quarterly, Winter 2018
90th birthday party —
Grandpa adds
more salt
Adolescent Unit —
the blind girl asks
if I am handsome
Acorn #35 Fall 2015
winter persists —
she shakes
her nail polish
Acorn #31 Fall 2013
icy sidewalk ...
a grey line of pigeons
above the underpass
bottle rockets #27 Summer 2012
streets sparkle —
the white dog follows
the path in the snow
bottle rockets #27 Summer 2012
valley summer —
shale breaks
in our hands
bottle rockets #28 Winter 2013
winter night ...
the dog buries his bone
in the couch
pigeons on the billboard advertising nothing
bottle rockets #34 Winter 2016
insomnia ...
a crow caws
sunrise
bottle rockets #32 Winter 2015
summer afternoon —
the saxophone busker
takes a drag
dirty bus windows going to a movie
Modern Haiku 43.3 Autumn 2012
summer night —
a window shuts
on our conversation
crow caws
in all directions ...
the endless traffic
cars parked
in the snow ...
alarms blinking
bottle rockets #37 Summer 2017