Month: February 2015

We begin our 15th year with a fresh crop of daily poems that will take us from winter well into spring, weaving in all the seasons along the way. Thanks to everyone who

Before the words, both of us trembling. Falling snow.  

winter night? late in the Scrabble game I draw the Q

slowly falling snow little by little I learn to forget you       (originally appeared in White Lotus, Issue 6, 2008)

Bukowski in bed all that heartache and grit between the sheets the way words touch me the way they don?t

we make out of all this friction love         (originally appeared in Modern Haiku, 42:3, autumn 2011)

long night rolling over the same old troubles

existence a little four-note song  

year finally over I scrub a ring from the tub  

black coffee on New Year’s morning spangles of sunlight  

a dragon kite carries the sun in its mouth  

new dawn… outed in a tweet  

a slow day at the window watching an icicle repair its broken parts  

loneliness opening the window to let in the rain  

Mid-winter evening, alone at the sushi bar? just me and this eel.       (from his haiku collection She Was Just Seventeen, Modern Haiku Press, 2006)