final prognosis different clouds on the horizon
Month: January 2017
mourning
no one else
at the all-way stop
birthday cake
a slice for everyone
in the hospice
summer picnic
the ants start
with dessert
“Hanoi Warms Up,” a short haibun by Marietta McGregor.
the hammock
back in shape
summer’s end
old love letters
your words
in light and shadow
photo by Frank Russell
dark passage the winter inside me
barefoot on linoleum
the moonlit square
even colder
snow
the city
in quiet chaos
snowbound . . .
down to the last cup
of birdseed
river’s edge
around the merganser’s body
ice thickening
April snowflakes
rearrange hometown memories
in the lineup
I wait for a brand new
permanent resident card
the cat not home . . .
apple blossoms
falling
blossoms . . .
the dog leap-curves
toward the frisbee
(originally published in Frogpond,Vol. XXX, No. 2, 2007)
deep breathing —
i drift by
the flower kiosk
museum of fine art boxcars
art studio
an empty frame
frames an empty frame
had i stayed
where i started
clear sky
if only
happiness were easy
paper flowers
rearranged
in a waterless vase
drought the struggle legible in leaves
day moon
a world about
its business