Month: December 2015

  withered chrysanthemums — my father gives me a compliment

  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