Selected Haiku: Hide-and-Seek Haiku

end of summer ...
a child plays hide-and-seek
with his shadow

paper wasp, 19:4, Summer 2013

Selected Kyoka: White Glow Kyoka

my wife proofreads
with an arsenal
of colored pencils ...
I stare into the white glow
of my laptop screen

Revision, Paper Wasp, 19:4, Summer 2013

Selected Kyoka: The Girl of My Dream Kyoka

the girl of my dream
who is reading Orlando
tells me about
the girl in her dream ...
my night with a cold moon

Paper Wasp, 19:3, Spring 2013

Selected Senryu: Thanksgiving Dinner Senryu

thanksgiving dinner
my ex sits in the back
of my mind

Paper Wasp, 19:2, Winter 2013

Selected Haiku: Smoke Rings Haiku

obituaries ...
winter moon drifting
in smoke rings

Paper Wasp, 19:1, Autumn 2013

Selected Haiku: War Cemetery Haiku

war cemetery ...
a long shadow
limping behind him

Paper Wasp, 19:1, Autumn 2013

Selected Haiku: Knife-Sharp Words Haiku

first crescent moon
my wife's knife-sharp words

make a poet of me

Revision, Paper Wasp, 19:1, Autumn 2013

Selected Tanka: Colors of Ash Tanka

autumn sun
veiled in the colors of ash
our silence
bears the weight of a tombstone
...then a butterfly

Paper Wasp, 18:4, Summer 2012

Selected Haiku: Too Full Too Empty Haiku

book-crammed apartment too full too empty

Paper Wasp, 18:4, Summer 2012

Selected Haiku: Colorful Words Haiku

snow drifting . . .
all her colorful words
about love

Paper Wasp, 18:4, Summer 2012

Poetry Reading Tanka

snowy on snow ...
after the poetry reading
I walk for hours
like a man
with someplace to go

Paper Wasp, 19:4, Summer 2013

Relationship Tanka

my wife proofreads
with an arsenal
of colored pencils
I stare into the white glow
of my laptop screen

Revision, Paper Wasp, 19:4, Summer 2013

Crumbs Haiku

summer breeze
a sparrow takes crumbs
from a beggar's hand

Paper Wasp, 19:4, Summer 2013

Hide-and-Seek Haiku

end of summer ...
the child plays hide-and-seek
with his shadow

Paper Wasp, 19:4, Summer 2013

A Tanka about Writing

to write or not
to write poems in Chinese
nibbling
in my head all day...
plum blossoms start to drift

Paper Wasp, 19:3, Spring 2013

A Tanka about the Girl of My dream

the girl of my dream
who is reading Orlando
tells me about
the girl in her dream...
my night with a cold moon

Paper Wasp, 19:3, Spring 2013

Phone Lines Haiku

phone lines
crisscross the sunset sky
thoughts of home

Paper Wasp, 19:3, Spring 2013

Moon Cafe Haiku

Moon Cafe at dusk
my world spinning
on a lump of sugar

Paper Wasp, 19:3, Spring 2013

Black Cat Haiku

April snowflakes drift...
my ex's black cat and I
bedfellows

Paper Wasp, 19:3, Spring 2013

New Year Shopping Haiku

new year shopping
my ex-girlfriend and I
exchange nods

Paper Wasp, 19:3, Spring 2013