withered chrysanthemums?
my father gives me
a compliment
Month: December 2015
family photograph
all our smiles
framed in a lie
dry leaves–
helping my father
with his death poem
shared memory—
the flutter of a million wings
in the monarch sanctuary
shrieking gull falling from a cliff this fear of flying
Ten times ten thousand
terrible things in this world
and still I don’t want to leave it
(from Dreams Wander On, Contemporary Poems of Death
dust devils
the rumble of fracking trucks
on a washboard road
summer drought
a farmhand’s sweat
wets the sod
(Previously published on Cattails, May 2015)
last day
of therapy
a man takes
the out of order sign
off the candy machine
talking done
the dregs of friendship
in our mugs
unfinished argument
all the thistles down the lane
flowering
shattered by a jay’s raw blue afternoon
red Martian sky
the differences
between us
runaway star
a streak of silver
in my hair
winter solstice ?
the day lengthened
by snow light
sleepless ?
my window floats through a thousand
stars
old train set
I unbox
my inner child
visitors coming
where to hide
our bad habits
(Included in A Dictionary of Haiku, AHA Books, 2013)
river tides where have I been
the deer pauses
before turning
back into mist
and afterwards
you don’t say anything
but your eyes flash
like lightning
off in the distance
gave proof
through the night
iPhones