old hands
my shared ancestry
with a leaf
Author: Gregory Longenecker
Gregory is a widely published poet, recipient of a Touchstone Award, author of Somewhere Inside Yesterday (Red Moon Press) and Moderator of the Southern California Haiku Study Group. He and his wife live in Pasadena, California.
barnacled rock
the sea claims
its own
the flight home
longer than the miles
dad’s funeral
knee deep in memory mountain scree
mid-autumn
the carelessness
of leaves
a dream within a dream Juneteenth
bones the geology of me
melting glaciers the river styx widens
climate change
the slippery slope
of a glacier
preparing my face
for the other faces
class reunion
the awkward
saunter of a magpie
junior high
busy all day
with their origami
paper wasps
a glimpse of deeper seas tidepool
beneath the waves
the pearled words
of oysters
age
the altered landscape
of my dreams
mayfly
no time
to look back
lost
in my own world
ground fog
magpie
on the barbed wire fence
he swears he’ll change