bleeding heart romance
vampiress loves food for thought
real men for dinner
bordello at night
fanged ladies come for a drink
the men never leave
candlelight dinner
steak tartare poisons lovers
vampire waitress feasts
nerdy Valentines
bookstore dates get paper cuts
thirsty salesclerk strikes
star-crossed lovers
abducted on Valentine’s
alien canines plunge
vampire restaurant
only raw red meat is served
the blood is the wine
box of chocolates
lady vampire laughs at date
grabs the guy instead
necking all night
vampiress falls in dream sleep
burned to dust at dawn
after blood-soaked binge
ladies retire to coffins
rats clean the upstairs
in winter gloaming
lovers stir in their dank crypt
the girl licks her lips
Gary Davis enjoys exercising his imagination through crafting dark and darkly humorous haiku and other forms of poetry. He finds haiku, in particular, both challenging and fun. Writing haiku is like doing a miniature Zen painting and, when you look at the painting, seeing something unexpected (and maybe scary in the case of horrorku). Mr. Davis has published haiku in Tales from the Moonlit Path, Scifaikuest, Star*Line, Lupine Lunes, and It Came from her Purse (2016-2024). He has published other poetry in Tales from the Moonlit Path, Tales of the Talisman, Bloodbond, Illumen, Spaceports & Spidersilk, Zen of the Dead, Potter’s Field 7, The Hungur Chronicles, and a sci-fi anthology, Kepler’s Cowboys (2014-2022).
Published 2/14/24