Poetry in the Moment

"Merely to say, to see and say, things 
as they are,” grows loud ... and louder in a corner of my mind as moonlight slants through the ...

the Stars and Stripes in my migrant friend's wrinkled eyes the spring that once was American dream somewhere over the rainbow detention ...

the warmth left by my late father's hand holding mine ... half asleep and half awake to this false winter dawn Cattails, October 2025

summer cottage everywhere the echo  of me Cattails, October 2025

cherry blossom rain a ponytailed girl pirouetting alone Cattails, October 2025

The longest month. On its first day, I wake alone to the snow crystals on my bedroom window. It takes me twenty minutes to get up, then I si...

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn will align and be visible from Earth late tonight. The scientists say planets alwa...

alone, uncertain to walk or not to walk the last mile to the mountain orchard, I slip further into my migrant past Cattails, April 2025

winter contrail the coming and going of her promises Cattails, April 2025

flickering birdsong joggers run through clouds of breath Cattails, April 2025

alone at twilight on the Pacific shore ... wave after wave lapping at the edge of my immigrant dream cattails, October, 2024

thunder-leaden sky the jumbled stack after stack of beach chairs cattails, October, 2024

the muddy paw prints of my old beagle housewarming party cattails, October, 2024

at my friend's door two military officers in morning chill ... his son and mine battle with rows of toy soldiers A long, heart-piercing ...

what am I supposed to do? Hit my nagging wife when she keeps on like rain dripping?  my old neighbor whines at the trial coverage, while ho...

harvest moon over Gold Mountain Diner -- a migrant and I eat and chat around the edges of our lost dreams Revision,  Cattails, April, 2024

a moment with a fallen leaf on the river ... the past will be past  in this floating life (to William Faulkner) Cattails, April, 2024

winter stillness a raven on the stupa Cattails, April, 2024

birthday morning I make faces at the old man in the mirror Cattails, April, 2024

rows of cameras ... the sheriff with a cowboy hat and two pistols pronounces, thank you God Almighty! the mass shooter was shot dead "M...