Category: haiku

• watching (haiku)

  i’m watching a man
  watching a squirrel but who
  is watching me now?

  February 8, 2011

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• sirens (living in Baltimore city haiku)

  sirens have a way
  of wailing in an echo –
  you gawk, you forget.

  January 21, 2011

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• missing you on your birthday (haiku)

  in yoga stillness
  your birthday candles still smoke
  drifts towards the heavens

  January 20, 2011

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• sometimes it’s just what you think (haiku)

  tenacious rush of
  dried lips puckering and blood
  drips below my nose

  January 15, 2011

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• archaeologist in training (haiku)

  she likes to dig through
  trash cans; other peoples’ lives
  in things tossed aside.

  December 10, 2010

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• untitled ("black magic" haiku)

  it seems i summoned
  the devil and oh how he
  gently holds my hand.

  December 8, 2010

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• the future is just beyond the page (haiku)

  visionary sees
  nothing, a blank canvas. tell
  more my prescient child —

  please.

  November 30, 2010

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• blessing of the hounds (fox hunt haiku)

  hound dogs and bloody
  marys. red riding coats verse
  an elusive fox.

  November 26, 2010

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• to the antiques roadshow — haiku

  that basement dweller
  dusty, all that time, all those
  stories….spotlight waits.

  November 2, 2010

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• green chair (haiku)

  green chair you sit patient
  with generations you speak
  “i am always here”

  [author’s note: my green chair is beyond a piece of furniture… it is a deep connection to the past and strangely enough, a friend]

  September 19, 2010

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