Haiku – other animals

distilled from the red stain he shook from bright spider silk

(First published in Bones.)

enough ink for a single letter. Having lured the neighbor,

(First published in Heliosparrow.)

what wild bird hides in the autumn valley of your thumbprint

(First published in Bones.)

where the skin grows thin a sharp moon pokes through bare branches

(First published in Heliosparrow.)

if I’m lucky one day these teeth will shatter Venus

(First published in Bones.)

something other than the hook in your mouth? Hold the end of this

(First published in Under the Basho.)

her toaster,
now a senator, votes on
the moon’s independence

I sing my love without any sun
but sudden snow in berry time

(First published in Bones.)

which we write on rice to fill as many mouths with rhyme

(First published in Bones.)

XXXXXXX, whose job curses us. In sister cities of emerging-market stars,

(First published in Under the Basho.)