Gunshot Haiku

gunshots outside
he turns up the volume
on his stereo
 
Modern haiku, 44:2, 2013

"Route Irish" Haiku

twilit Route Irish...
loud Jazz music
from the tanks


Note: Route Irish is one of the most dangerous stretches of highway in Iraq)

PoemHunter, June 11, 2013

De Wallen at Twilight, A Haiku Sequence

Old Sichuan Cuisine
between window brothels
I eat alone

from one window brothel
to another...
a street dog and I

surrounded by girls
in the window brothels...
me and the Oude Kerk


Notes

1 De Wallen, a major tourist attraction, is the largest and best known red-light district in Amsterdam, in/famous for its "window brothels" ("one-room cabins" rented by sex workers).
2 Sichuan cuisine is known for its spicy, tongue-numbing dishes.
3 Founded in 1213, the Oude Kerk ("old church") is Amsterdam’s oldest building and old parish church.

NeverEnding Story, June 9, 2013

Confession of an Immigrant Poet, A Haibun

Winter sunlight is streaming through the attic window onto my Walmart build-it-yourself desk.

As a Chinese coolie working with thought and emotions in the enclave of a foreign language, I don’t feel any pleasure from writing most of the time, except in fleeting moments when I extract gold dust from the sand in a river that winds through the land of memories.

the shape of the day
after one haiku
frozen walkways

Haibun Today, 7:2, June 2013

The Edge of Night Tanka

I stand
at the edge of night
looking in
and out at the space
between winter stars

PoemHunter, June 1 2013

A Tanka about Ajax and Taipei

ten years gone ...
is the harvest moon
in the Ajax sky
the same moon
hanging over Taipei?

PoemHunter, May 31, 2013

A Tanka about Vincent's Ghost

a sickle moon
at the attic window . . .
layer by layer
Vincent's ghost peels
the crust from my night

NeverEnding Story, May 12, 2013