Category: Haiku

• sleepless motel night
  next door the sound
  of Windows starting

  April 11, 2014

  hotel, sleepless, Windows

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• toweling off–
  for a moment
  a naked superhero

  April 10, 2014

  naked, superhero, towel

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• her manicure
  through plastic gloves
  daffodil leaves

  April 8, 2014

  daffodil, manicure, plastic gloves

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• summer evening
  the old dog slowly digs
  the earth

  April 7, 2014

  digs, dog, earth, evening, summer

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• evening cool:
  the dog finds
  his favorite bone

  April 4, 2014

  bone, cool, dog, evening

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• leaves fall
  I close my eyes to hear
  the crow

  April 3, 2014

  crow, eyes, leaves

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• fine rain—
  a white spider climbs
  the window sill

  April 2, 2014

  rain, spider, window

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• the dishwasher
  halfway through
  a dream of the ocean

  March 28, 2014

  dishwasher, dream, ocean

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• the town’s broken clock the color of the snowstorm

  March 27, 2014

  broken, clock, snow storm

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• edge
  of the dog park–
  lavender sways

  March 24, 2014

  dog park, edge, lavender

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• just above the apartments
  a handful of frozen stars
  and my breath

  March 13, 2014

  apartments, breath, frozen, stars

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• her sarcasm
  lost
  in the stars

  March 12, 2014

  lost, sarcasm, stars

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• bright winter morning
  in another room
  the kettle calls

  March 11, 2014

  bright, kettle, morning, winter

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• the leaves
  crisply colored
  magnets click

  March 10, 2014

  colored, leaves, magnets

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• carefully lifting
  the new glass bowl—
  my hands on your hips

  March 7, 2014

  bowl, glass, hands, hips

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• the teabag squeezed
  till bursting—
  another year older

  March 6, 2014

  bursting, older, teabag, year

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• on opposite streets
  two dogs exchange glances:
  morning rain

  March 4, 2014

  dogs, glances, morning, rain

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• under an inch of snow
  the outline of a ladder

  March 3, 2014

  inch, ladder, outline, snow

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• in leaves
  before the storm
  the sound of the storm

  February 28, 2014

  leaves, sound, storm

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• ducks
  come to my empty hands
  winter

  February 27, 2014

  ducks, empty, hands, winter

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• high risk of fire in my bones the dance of pine cones

  February 25, 2014

  bones, fire, pine cones, risk

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• the name I call you at night white blossoms

  February 24, 2014

  blossoms, name, night, white

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• the colors in a pile
  of crushed cars
  autumn

  February 23, 2014

  autumn, colors, crushed cars

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• the crunch of tobiko a twenty
  in the gutter

  February 7, 2014

  crunch, gutter, tobiko, twenty

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• folds of a dress
  in an old painting
  the southern hills

  January 30, 2014

  dress, folds, hills, painting, southern

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• reluctant to hyphenate the clouds of August

  January 29, 2014

  August, clouds, hyphenate, reluctant

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• me and Shakespeare walnut shells

  January 28, 2014

  Shakespeare, shells, walnut

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• thinking of throwing it away
  I crack and fry up the full moon

  January 25, 2014

  away, crack, moon

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• insomnia
  the pure white
  of David’s eyes

  January 24, 2014

  eyes, insomnia

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• pin drop night where my wings used to be

  January 20, 2014

  night, pin, wings

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• another summer gone
  the worms
  we don’t outrun

  January 15, 2014

  outrun, summer, worms

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• the sudden way

  spring peepers

  it all works out

   

  January 15, 2014

  spring peepers, sudden

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• the mourning doves already forgot my first dream

  January 14, 2014

  dove, dream

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• the scent of wood fires in fog I start the day

  January 13, 2014

  fires, fog, wood

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• one day you and I and all these flowers

  January 12, 2014

  flowers

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• plums drop through her cursive loops sound of the sea

  January 11, 2014

  cursive, loops, plums, sea

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• coffee stains another Earth-like planet

  January 10, 2014

  coffee, planet, stain

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• ants furiously building days when nothing dries

  January 9, 2014

  ants, building, dries

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• grit in the wind all my abandoned blogs

  January 8, 2014

  abandoned, blogs, grit, wind

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• pin drop night where my wings used to be

  From the latest Frogpond.

  March 28, 2013

  night, wings

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• the sun silently deifying crumbs on the table

  (First published in Modern Haiku.)

  March 27, 2013

  Crumbs, modern haiku, sun, table

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• noses almost touching the paper as they color frozen rain

  February 25, 2013

  color, frozen, noses, rain

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• midwinter

  adding layer after layer

  to my ego

  January 31, 2013

  ego, layer, midwinter

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• have I read this before smoke from a chimney clouds from the sky

  January 23, 2013

  chimney, clouds, smoke

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• she whispers to the dog

  as I leave the room

  spring showers

  January 22, 2013

  dog, showers, spring, whispers

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• late January

  the tea

  black as coffee

  January 21, 2013

  coffee, january, tea

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• all our plans for November cold leftovers 

  November 27, 2012

  leftovers, november, plans

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• mid autumn again I pick up Anna Karenina

  November 2, 2012

  anna karenina, autumn

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• all the faces aghast the luck I’ve had & haven’t

  November 1, 2012

  aghast, faces, luck

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• rain taps a tune on the AC the edge of a good mood

  October 30, 2012

  AC, good mood, rain

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• season of a small loneliness the liquid grey sky

  October 25, 2012

  loneliness, sky

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• the song of one apartment in fog a lone sparrow

  October 19, 2012

  apartment, fog, song, sparrow

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• winter the scientific names of butterflies

  October 17, 2012

  butterflies, names, winter

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• bare trees

  a broken umbrella

  from a tropical drink

   

  October 16, 2012

  drink, trees, umbrella

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• first frost

  just my hair on the couch

  now that the dog’s gone

  October 15, 2012

  couch, dog, frost, hair

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