Starlight Tanka

her last question
how can you make a life
out of mere words
reverberates in the dark…
starlight once in her eyes

Contemporary Literary Horizon, 3, May/June 2012

Nostalgia Tanak

3 am
I wake to a thump
in the attic
where ghosts of the past
hold their powwow

Contemporary Literary Horizon, 3, May/June 2012

Good Friday Tanka

Good Friday night…
a teenage girl in red
lies motionless
on the sidewalk
facing the starlit sky

Contemporary Literary Horizon, 3, May/June 2012

"Chinglish" Tanka

emasculated
by her "ABC, follow me"
the first time
he shouts out
the F-words in Chinglish

Contemporary Literary Horizon, 3, May/June 2012

A Tanak about Evangelism

Amazing Grace
drowning in traffic noise...
bright sky silhouettes
the evangelist's profile
before the ship's mast

Contemporary Literary Horizon, 3, May/June 2012

Year in, Year Out: A Haiku Sequence

New Year's morning
on The Metamorphosis
slanted sunlight

April rains
I touch the face
in The Scream

summer stargazing
they do the cha cha cha
in my whisky glass

Georgian Bay
sipping the Taiwan moon
from my cupped hands

snow on snow
is my life a dream
within a dream

Contemporary Literary Horizon, 3, May/June 2012