Haiku

                                                       picnic by a brook
                                                       on the road nearby
                                                       an idling truck

                                                      woodland trail
                                                      in the trees above
                                                      the pit-pit of rain

                                                      respite from the heat
                                                      we put our discussion
                                                      on hold
Stylus, 4/2007
Stylus, 10,2007
A Hundred Gourds, 6/2013

Haiku

Haiku Reality, Dec. 2010
Ambrosia, Aug. 2010
Stylus Poetry Journal, Jan. 2009

Haiku

Summer Haiku

rose trellis
shadows on the wall
woven by the wind

first light
a coolness in the call
of mourning doves

summer dampness   surrounded
       on a country road   night smells

Shiki kukai, 11/2010

Presence , autumn 2010
Taj Mahal Review, winter 2008
(with some modification)-

Haiku

a slow darkness–

lingering in the shadows

all the day’s heat

insects at dusk–

their monotone broken

by a dog’s bark

late afternoon–

a breeze pushes the heat

from here to there

HSA Anthology, 2006

Frogpond, spring 2008

World Haiku Review, spring 2009