Nights at the Opera

Don Giovanni…
learning from
my ghosts
.
opera buffa—
long after the laughter
the tears
.
opera seria
the prima donna throws
a tantrum
.
asphodels…
and the stars were shining
unseen
.
and what if
all the world’s a stage—
Pleiades
.
Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu, issue 1.11, p.152