an ice cream cone
shaped by her tongue
sultry evening
Month: December 2016
the touch before we part mimosa leaf
night pond –
the Big Dipper full
of leaves
(originally appeared in Cattails, May 2016)
early frost
our first fight
over nothing
“Climate Change,” a haibun by Angele Ellis.
skipping stones?
the weight
of father?s words
getting bigger
the hole
in my story
after the monsoon
a light rain
apology
liquid sun our glasses filled with dandelion wine
the wine
opening up
our conversation
“I’m married …”
ice cubes shifting
in her wine glass
3 minutes to midnight…
the barkeep tends
to emptiness
switchback . . .
adding another stone
to the cairn
its name painted out
the ghost town
water tower
deep winter
a boy in the fountain
collecting wishes
music
how it gathers
the lonely
(Included in A Dictionary of Haiku, AHA Books, 2nd ed., 1993-2013)
Lilies of the field ?
what the world calls
doing nothing
new wellies
Christopher Robin
tags along
bike rental
I pedal my way
back to childhood
the part of
town th
at us
ed to
be h
er
e
winter beach
wave after wave
of memory
beach littered with shells
the ocean whispers
in vitro