a country road
through the dun colored landscape
of November
chimney smoke stirs a desire
to return home
Magnapoets Antholoogy 2009
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Tanka
a country road
through the dun colored landscape
of November
chimney smoke stirs a desire
to return home
Magnapoets Antholoogy 2009
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Haiku
HAIKU FOR AUTUMN
a shift in the wind
all my neighnbor's leaves
are now mine
morning fog
a watercolor wash
of maple gold
woodland walk
all of autumn
under my feet
Midwest Haiku, Illinois Times, November 2002
Stylus Poetry Journal, December 2004
HSA Wall. Bend, Oregon June 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Haibun
BIG SISTER
sticky night
whispering
after lights out
Bottle Rockets, August 2008
She teases and torments me; plays with me and protects; chases me away and calls me back.
We share a room, toys and clothes, sickness and secrets. We fight, yell and scream, scratch and pinch. I bite her once. The taste of brown soap still remembered. When she’s away at camp I’m lonely.
She explains important matters. The “curse,“ an aunt’s growing stomach, how boys are different from girls, why a neighbor divorced her husband.
sticky night
whispering
after lights out
Bottle Rockets, August 2008
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
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oh, this wind! it sweeps me past my gate then spins me home spring clean-up- in the sweat of hard work a settling peace solid gray sky- fors...
