Category: haiku

• turn the other cheek (haiku)

  you can find out why
  when the night smacks you around
  … you know, you know… begin.

  June 9, 2011

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• silk road (haiku)

  at 4 am it
  seems like a razor slices
  the narrowest vein.

  till ribbons of silk
  take to the road on camel
  leaving naught but dust.

  May 27, 2011

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• the dark place (haiku)

  the dark place lurks close
  behind —  in front —  it aims to
  catch me in its jaws.

  May 3, 2011

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• fire in the apartment building

  In one instance all
  that defined your life before
  disappears to ash.

  This ash is richly
  sewn by threads, wove tight on frame –
  ready to spin gold.

  April 15, 2011

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• the smell of a brand new book (haiku)

  creak the casebound open
  bury nose deep, inhale more
  tradition old, rich

  pages, each begging
  like American beauties
  perfuming the yard.

  March 25, 2011

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• night without glasses (haiku)

  hazy halos form
  everywhere like a sky of
  angels, still blurry.

  March 11, 2011

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• quietly approaching storm (haiku)

  clouds are a soft grey
  zibeline scarf choking the
  neck of the city.

  March 9, 2011

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• the couch (haiku)

  soft leather, pillows
  reach, wrap, magically take me
  as their own – day ends.

  March 6, 2011

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• Elton John for Valentine’s day (haiku)

  wine bottle tenor
  singing “Ballarina -a”
  to a dim lit floor.

  (to some, this is a perfect evening – you know who you are)

  February 15, 2011

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• i like a cold wind (haiku)

  i like a cold wind
  reminds my bones rattling
  what it feels to live.

  February 11, 2011

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