Matthew Caretti

A View to My Old Match.com Profile

I laugh most at what I left out. The taciturn and the tendency towards solitude. Often favoring my books. My writing. A preference for long distance. And if not, long hours away on the bike. Long hours at home on the meditation cushion. No real desire for cohabitation, actually.

Eventually, I suppose, I planned to marry all this with the rest of the half-truths.

a perfect match 
organic peanut butter
the oil on top

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About the Author

Matthew Caretti began publishing his poems in 2009, though his fascination with Eastern short-form genres began much earlier. In 2020, he won the Genjuan International Haibun Contest’s Cottage Prize for “Call to Prayer” and received Honorable Mention recognition for “The Car in the Petrol Station Lot” in the Haiku Society of America’s Haibun Contest.