other animals

March 24, 2012

before the day unfolds its face the slow swell of white blossoms

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blossoms, face, white
March 23, 2012

red clouds this morning the garbage truck backs into my tea

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clouds, garbage truck, morning, tea
March 22, 2012

between grey Bronx buildings a magnolia’s pink stretches

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Bronx, magnolia, pink
March 21, 2012

between both sides of sleep tossing and turning the sharpness of birds

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birds, sleep
March 20, 2012

the cartoon face of my problems dust settles on the moon

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cartoon, dust, moon, problems
March 19, 2012

birds call endlessly I search the journals for lost haiku

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birds, call, journals, lost
March 18, 2012

more squirrels in the yard digging for treasure with my good pen

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pen, squirrels, treasure, yard
March 17, 2012

the fog dissolving bare branches but a glimpse of green

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bare branches, fog, green
March 16, 2012

until it sings spreading seeds through the escaping sky

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seeds, sing, sky
March 15, 2012

the darkness of parked cars on a spring morning the breeze

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breeze, cars, spring
March 14, 2012

the creak of the door as she leaves I hope the mockingbird wasn’t listening

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bird, door, mockingbird
March 13, 2012

the snowdrops barely blooming I throw away another pen

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pen, snowdrops
March 12, 2012

the green rubber band trying to hold it all together

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green, rubber band
March 11, 2012

morning sun through church bells dark spots on orchid leaves

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church, leaves, spot, sun
March 10, 2012

flipping through the leaves the poem I was writing in the wind

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leaves, wind
March 9, 2012

so many things but where do I

start in the red shade of the oak

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oak, red
March 8, 2012

calm morning the neighbor’s dog starts to bark back when I was a kid

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dog
March 7, 2012

melting snow my accountant’s enormous fingers

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accountant, fingers, snow
March 6, 2012

outside the sex shop the raw pink of the homeless man’s legs

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homeless, legs
March 5, 2012

the green weight of summer sighs

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green, sigh, summer, weight
March 4, 2012

a word for those years finally soft wings from the cocoon

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cocoon, wings
March 3, 2012

how hard you had to hit the old typewriter summer shower

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shower, summer, typewriter
March 2, 2012

a mourning dove cooing to the train in the pine tree

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dove, pine, train, tree
March 1, 2012

bright spots on the branches the last drops of rain hold on

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branches, bright, rain
February 29, 2012

up to my elbows in mud feeling for the rough edges of new poems

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elbows, mud
February 28, 2012

the heavy grapes of high summer in the year’s first crocus

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crocus, grapes, nahaiwrimo, summer
February 27, 2012

the branches darken on every corner a murder

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branches, corner, darken, murder
February 26, 2012

a stream of words when I close my eyes leaves in the breeze

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breeze, eyes, leaves, stream
February 25, 2012

wind tossed trees all the little blue flowers stay still

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blue, flowers, still, wind
February 24, 2012

maybe just hunger in the highest parts of the clouds

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clouds, hunger
February 21, 2012

winter sunrise a string of rejections back into the sky

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rejections, sky
February 20, 2012

his face the dark landscape before the train stops

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face, landscape, train
February 19, 2012

I smoke too much in dreams fine welding on the mermaid

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dreams, mermaid, smoke, welding
February 18, 2012

the sweetness of apples past their prime in the blue dawn

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apples, blue, dawn, sweetness
February 17, 2012

a few green sprouts from the stubble I start a new blog

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blog, sprouts, stubble
February 16, 2012

thin winter moon I dust the old dog’s ashes

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ashes, dog, dust, moon, thin, winter
February 15, 2012

lingering dark the cold sting of my pastrami

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dark, lingering, pastrami
February 12, 2012

spots on the sun her voice goes on forever

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forever, spots, sun, voice
February 11, 2012

light snow on thin branches I catch and release the fly

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branches, catch, fly, snow, thin
February 10, 2012

the stone in my gut between waxing and waning

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gut, stone, waning, waxing
February 9, 2012

the yellow moon hides in the pan the bacon hisses

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bacon, moon, pan, yellow
February 8, 2012

train whistle billows of steam from the humidifier

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billows, humidifier, steam, train, whistle
February 7, 2012

all the flavors of the orange sunset

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flavors, orange, sunset
February 5, 2012

in a drafty kitchen I peel an egg bereft of haiku

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drafty, egg, kitchen
February 4, 2012

flags in a distant courtyard squirrel chirps from a leafless perch

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courtyard, flags, leafless, squirrel
February 3, 2012

a faint taste of chocolate in the concept of fallen leaves

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chocolate, concept, leaves, taste
February 2, 2012

a winter fly bangs the ceiling thin groundhog soup

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ceiling, fly, groundhog, soup, winter
February 1, 2012

the strange poetry of dreams I wake up so thirsty

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dreams, thirsty
January 1, 2012

first smile of the year my fingers stained with blue ink

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blue, fingers, ink, smile, stained
December 24, 2011

autumn leaves like me trapped under ice

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autumn, ice, leaves, trapped
December 11, 2011

I unfold the napkin and banish the shadows

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banish, napkin, shadow
Haiku honor

December 11, 2011

I just found out that a haiku I sent to The Mainichi Daily News was awarded a third place prize in 2010 for the best haiku in English:

no matter
which way the table wobbles
the heat

I suppose I should google myself more often…

You can see many more fine haiku that were printed in The Mainichi Daily News here.

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award, japan, mainichi daily news, prize
December 10, 2011

what to save what to send

sunshine through young leaves

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voices echo in the hall I turn down the TV

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the tree shaking his head no in the wind

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leaves, tree, tv, wind
December 9, 2011

frozen grass I breathe out just to see the cloud

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distant sound of sirens through snowflakes winter seclusion

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blowing the crumbs off my keyboard I think of the old dog

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breath, dog, frozen, grass, snow, winter
December 8, 2011

the wind & rain a gamelan

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a tree broken by the wind I only have questions this morning

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bare trees in bright sun why is it so hard to be nice to myself

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one more I say and stare at the clouds

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gamelan, question, rain, tree, wind

Haiku honor