Four Haiku

Juan Manuel Pérez

January 15, 2021

Inauguration, No.1 

inauguration: 

word seems larger than meaning 

leaving room for HOPE

Inauguration, No. 2

storms of silent cheer

passing of a broken torch

time and peace, the glue

Inauguration, No. 3

refresh faint rainbows

in representative tones

peaceful in contrast 

Inauguration No, 4

destroyer of noise

may peace re-sign its contract

may the sun rise true

Juan Manuel Pérez, a Mexican-American poet of indigenous descent and the 2019-2020 Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi, Texas, is the author of several books of poetry including two new books, Space in Pieces (2020) and Screw the Wall! and Other Brown People Poems (2020).