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  • January 28, 2014

    me and Shakespeare walnut shells

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    Shakespeare, shells, walnut

  • January 25, 2014

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

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    away, crack, moon

  • January 24, 2014

    insomnia
    the pure white
    of David’s eyes

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    eyes, insomnia

  • January 20, 2014

    pin drop night where my wings used to be

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    night, pin, wings

  • January 15, 2014

    another summer gone
    the worms
    we don’t outrun

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    outrun, summer, worms

  • January 15, 2014

    the sudden way

    spring peepers

    it all works out

     

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    spring peepers, sudden

  • January 14, 2014

    the mourning doves already forgot my first dream

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    dove, dream

  • January 13, 2014

    the scent of wood fires in fog I start the day

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    fires, fog, wood

  • January 12, 2014

    one day you and I and all these flowers

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    flowers

  • January 11, 2014

    plums drop through her cursive loops sound of the sea

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    cursive, loops, plums, sea

  • January 10, 2014

    coffee stains another Earth-like planet

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    coffee, planet, stain

  • January 9, 2014

    ants furiously building days when nothing dries

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    ants, building, dries

  • January 8, 2014

    grit in the wind all my abandoned blogs

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    abandoned, blogs, grit, wind

  • March 28, 2013

    pin drop night where my wings used to be

    From the latest Frogpond.

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    night, wings

  • March 27, 2013

    the sun silently deifying crumbs on the table

    (First published in Modern Haiku.)

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    Crumbs, modern haiku, sun, table

  • February 25, 2013

    noses almost touching the paper as they color frozen rain

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    color, frozen, noses, rain

  • January 31, 2013

    midwinter

    adding layer after layer

    to my ego

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    ego, layer, midwinter

  • January 23, 2013

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

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    chimney, clouds, smoke

  • January 22, 2013

    she whispers to the dog

    as I leave the room

    spring showers

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    dog, showers, spring, whispers

  • January 21, 2013

    late January

    the tea

    black as coffee

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    coffee, january, tea

  • November 27, 2012

    all our plans for November cold leftovers 

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    leftovers, november, plans

  • November 2, 2012

    mid autumn again I pick up Anna Karenina

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    anna karenina, autumn

  • November 1, 2012

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

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    aghast, faces, luck

  • October 30, 2012

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

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    AC, good mood, rain

  • October 25, 2012

    season of a small loneliness the liquid grey sky

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    loneliness, sky

  • October 19, 2012

    the song of one apartment in fog a lone sparrow

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    apartment, fog, song, sparrow

  • October 17, 2012

    winter the scientific names of butterflies

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    butterflies, names, winter

  • October 16, 2012

    bare trees

    a broken umbrella

    from a tropical drink

     

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    drink, trees, umbrella

  • October 15, 2012

    first frost

    just my hair on the couch

    now that the dog’s gone

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    couch, dog, frost, hair

  • October 11, 2012

    the moment autumn could be spring moonflowers

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    autumn, moonflowers, spring

  • October 10, 2012

    light rain

    the stray cat looks at me

    and carries on

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    cat, rain

  • October 9, 2012

    rain stops the silent half of the seesaw

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    rain, seesaw, silent

  • October 4, 2012

    soon we’ll leave

    soon after

    yellow leaves

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    leave, leaves, yellow

  • September 28, 2012

    shake off the weight of sleep and say it yellow leaves

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    leaves, sleep

  • September 27, 2012

    picking up a heavy book

    the floor no longer lava

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    book, lava

  • September 26, 2012

    a little dish for pills where no moss grows

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    dish, moss, pills

  • September 25, 2012

    the crows silent suddenly bare oaks

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    crows, oaks, silent

  • September 24, 2012

    autumn still so green a gleaming fork in the road

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    autumn, fork, green, road

  • September 21, 2012

    no one looking I still try to push the clouds

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    clouds, push

  • September 20, 2012

    a patch of grey and now the whole sky grinding my teeth again

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    grey, sky, teeth

  • September 19, 2012

    the weight of the pen

    as I do nothing

    autumn

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    autumn, pen, weight

  • September 18, 2012

    the sound of gentle rain and bacon

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    bacon, rain

  • September 17, 2012

    back from the island the air of our home

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    home, island

  • August 31, 2012

    squirrels

    running away

    from everything

     

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    running, squirrels

  • August 30, 2012

    bright blue of the recycling bin someone else’s Labor Day

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    labor, labor day, recycling bin

  • August 29, 2012

    morning sun the silver of the spider’s night work

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    morning, night, silver, spider, sun

  • August 28, 2012

    faintest wind chimes pine cones at the end of summer

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    pine cones, summer, wind chimes

  • August 27, 2012

    dust in the autumn wind footprints on the moon

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    autumn, dust, footprints, moon, wind

  • August 24, 2012

    the rise of mountains my golden mistake

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    mistake, mountains

  • August 23, 2012

    wind beats the leaves I trust the long journey of blood

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    blood, journey, leaves, wind

  • August 22, 2012

    a dog eating grass in the rain peonies droop

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    dog, grass, peonies, rain

  • August 21, 2012

    dawn chorus the clicks of supplements in a tiny bowl

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    bowl, dawn chorus, supplements

  • August 20, 2012

    now and then dragonflies tempt me into the sun

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    dragonflies, sun, tempt

  • August 19, 2012

    humid night the star’s bad grammar wears me away

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    grammar, humid, night, stars

  • August 17, 2012

    another cup of tea I didn’t taste summer clouds

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    clouds, summer, tea

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