Otherwise Haiku
staring off
into leafy distances
a leaf with eyes
*
deeper even
than memory…
the red maple
*
a plant opens
the Venetian blinds
to look out
*
weird opossum
wobbling its way home
you coat it in words
*
Easter t.v.
Jason Voorhees
back from the dead
*
the neighbor who died
you ask if it’s okay
to steal his moss
*
obituary
we learn the unfriendly
neighbor’s name
*
written word
the oasis
amid sound
*
feeding wild birds
feral cats too
never do pick a team
*
drip drip
after night rain
clean senses
*
deep night
while we dream our house
sleepwalks in time
*
fireworks explode
a hospital watches
in the dark river
*
biker’s funeral
his tattooist
accepts kind words
*
young widow
at a funeral tries to hide
her new tattoo
*
neighboring village
all we know of them
one floating kite
*
from a field
bringing home
wildflowers and spiders
*
an ant pauses
a probabilistic wave
cools mind
*
even an ant pauses
and thinks
“Once…”
*
old man’s radio
two songs at once
duke it out
*
chain link fence
more of the wind’s shape
each year
*
farm girls watch boys
rip corn open
tear silk
*
afterlife tides…
a dead crab
moves in the surf
*
mums, poinsettias,
hyacinths, geranium,
uranium, polonium
*
the crab
sort of faces you
sort of blue
*
by the time aphids
send their grandchildren to war
I’m Genghis Khan
*
one night
moonlight remembers
a long-dead cat
*
up early
all the mirrors
colder
