Floated-Outside-It Haiku
gentle rain
into the river
barely talking
*
meteor shower
somehow somehow
the promise
*
having died
long before this Monet
we’re evenly matched
*
distant night train
an egg’s armor
begins to crack
*
green peeling staircase
paint every year
greener in memory
*
invisible girl
orange peels
for a city block
*
finding purple shells
low tide babbling
in our purple prose
*
watch a snake…
imagine it with hands
cracking its rosary
*
a loving mother
eats her children’s
gnat clouds
*
t.v. news
moth’s searing love of the bulb–
forgotten safeword
*
before he jumps, his joy
knowing a dark river
feels nothing
*
antifreeze leaks
the moon’s reflection
in a cold puddle
*
you wake to a mirror
speaking an unknown dialect
of moonlight
*
distant gunshot
so far away the sound
a lid crawling off
*
soft shell crab night–
we hear someone
eating a coffin
*
bacon strip
you eat a pig’s burn
ape orgasm
*
high school years later
lab’s floating pig fetus
only face i recall
*
buying meal worms on credit
he realizes his children
are watching
*
dark parked car
playing Bizet for fireflies
no one else
*
Christmas morning
dark centuries
open their presence
*
walking home alone
leaving drunk fireflies clearly
trying too hard
*
waking at night
promising darkness
things, things
*
fireflies
just seem to want more
every year
*
night airport
tired moonlight
coming and going
*
bales of hay
the crow at morning
a preacher
*
crickets in frost
cross the same field as me
as zero
*
dark autumn pond
reflections misquoting
like the rest of us
*
night hires
standing at the door
more reptile jackets
*
shuttered GOLD’s gym
geese preen in the lot
clones stretching
*
summer pond
child asks a small fish:
“which one’s your mother?”
*
beery winds
through dark branches
of downtown trees
*
twenty minnows
swam into me tonight
then a huge moon
*
balcony slouching a woman slouching there on it made of straw
*
desert winds
tree widows their branches
moaning Kama Sutra
*
two story trees
violet membranes
bottled-up in paint
*
abandoned merely
cuz she is a skeleton
poor tree
*
juicy plum
(the joke in stars)
anything waits
*
spring breeze
you suddenly realize
he’s older on top
*
charles schwab
downtown wall fakes
lower case airs
