Friday, December 18, 2009

Lakota Medicine arrows - wisdom from four directions

Medicine arrows
a quiver holds only four
I take careful aim

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

winter coats, mittens
in the back of my closet
ah! -- Florida!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

cranberry sauce
tart, sweet -- spilled on my jacket
red badge of courage

Friday, November 13, 2009

a pigeon flies through
under a covered walkway
escaping a hawk

Sunday, November 8, 2009


(they marched -- Barbara Tuchman wrote -- to bands and cheering, waving crowds... that was in the endless summer days of August, 1914.)

their shattered bodies
piled upon each other
all parades end

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

gray goose glides
just above me as I pause
to tie my shoestrings

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Seven gables crown
that gray abandoned house
I walk by briskly

on the time change

Do we fall behind?
No, time simply moves forward
-- with or without us
the punter warms up
as fans begin to leave
he waits for the snap

Monday, October 19, 2009

baptized by fire
Blackrobe Jean Breboef, martyr
ora pro nobis
Diwali's bright lights
of so many colors
shine on all

Sunday, October 11, 2009

first encounter
on a quiet, sunny beach
Columbus Day
Prized Obama
humbled by Nobel's pick
has still much to do

Saturday, September 26, 2009

at the UN
they beat their tongues and jawbone
loud clang of anvils
the honored dead--
in life they were less so
markers for slaves' tombs

Friday, September 25, 2009

fall's already here--
I know, I looked it up
no one told the sun

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

gray morning sky
gray oystermen as well
a rocky beach

Sunday, September 6, 2009

a young woman at the beach

she plants her crutches
firmly in the wet sand
-- her smiling face

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Fair winds, Senator Kennedy

an old sailor
prepares for one last voyage
never to return

Silverfish

good taste or taste good
silverfish swallow poems
without regard

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

dangling sex acts// of Limax maximus// are far from sluggish

(the Great Slug's 'love life' is quite acrobatic.)
Gregor Samsa
awakens as a bug
or does he?

Sunday, August 23, 2009

August afternoon
a sparrow lands on a ledge
and burns its feet

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

flicking off flies
an old, blind cow resists
just a bit longer

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Web-based, its design
supports an architecture
that catches flies


Sunday, July 26, 2009

Windies win toss
but could not stop Bangla bats
this afternoon

Monday, July 20, 2009

on an inner tube
the tea-colored river
is a vast sea

Adam's lament

You sent her to me
She handed me the apple
What was I to do?
Don't let the door close
as you step down, Buzz
we don't have a key!

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Anastasia

Anastasia --
a princess died, a soul lives
"Resurrection"

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Row upon row
their brown eyes follow the Sun
field of sunflowers

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Tranquility Base, 1969

With his "one small step"
we all take a giant leap
Tranquility base
broken China
Hu heads home from G8
to pick the shards

Monday, July 6, 2009


her tiny fingers --
grasp mine for the first time
a preemie's handshake

Friday, July 3, 2009

prayers at Gettysburg - third day

Each side invokes Him
in prayer that morning
for many their last

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Little Round Top
a thin blue line holds

brave men of Maine

Sunday, June 28, 2009

small sounds from a nest
bring a smile to my face
a fresh start

Saturday, June 27, 2009

sandcastle besieged
by a determined foe
hard rain on a beach
part sunblock, part sea
scent of a summer lover
as she dries herself

Friday, June 26, 2009

a poverty sijo

Slices of stale bread//bologna that mustn't be looked at too closely//
She makes sandwiches for her children//
who will eat them hungrily//
Cheating roaches of their crumbs
elevator's stuck
-- they gaze at each other
fortune favors bold

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

bluer than I deserved
how the light danced in your eyes
fond memories

Sunday, June 14, 2009

with both feet he jumps
full-square on the puddle- splash
mom's new white dress

your green eyes light up
a lovely summer's evening
memories of home
Corpus Christi rains --
falling anywhere but here
too dry for planting

Thursday, May 28, 2009

"let justice be done"
even if a few snore
jury pool waiting


Monday, May 25, 2009

brown eyes fixed on me
following my every move
sunflowers in bloom
bird's song
restores the world each morning
each day, the Lord's
birdsongs waken me
dawn's light is still rosy
hit 'snooze' - without guilt

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

her shadow lingers
memories too
of our last kiss

Monday, April 20, 2009

Lyrids skyshow// longtail comets to streak// fireworks for Earth Day

Sunday, April 19, 2009

a caterpillar spins
a cocoon of wet, raw silk
spring home improvement

lobster love
she takes careful aim - fires
"number one" at him

Thursday, April 16, 2009

nasty pincers
-- didn't even know I had them
earwigs so misunderstood
hazy daybreak
a squirrel stops, bobs, skitters
breakfast stop

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Marilyn Chambers
- how will we remember her
Ivory or porn?

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

L'Aquila quake strike
for some the present
becomes eternity

Sunday, April 12, 2009


Moon's reflection/on your full belly/ Sea of Fecundity
Paper boat floats
on a still pond
Sea-that-we-know
waves crash on the shore
sending white spray, foam over walls
sandcastles breached

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

caterpillar's fruit
with every bite I take
I risk finding half

Sunday, April 5, 2009

for Anne Bronte


Waves crash
raising billows of foam
roar of thunder overhead

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

dented cans - half price
some without labels
I reach for hidden treasures

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Train haiku

reaching for Nirvana
on a speeding train
mindfulness on the Metro

*I write this haiku to mark the occasion of seeing a passenger on Miami's Metrorail southbound, 8:24 am, June 26, 2003. An Asian man seated across from me was in a full lotus position at prayer as the train sped through several stations.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Spring

Spring's sprung --
bringing a bounce in my walk
watch out ladies

Catbird
A pale moon shining
on her growing belly
Sea of fecundity

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Dawn

blushing sky above
below all quiet and damp
another morning comes

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