Poetry in the Moment

      rain dr          ps      o b      o    m Haiku Avenue, 9, 2025

months after the fire these hills blowing with poppies! fire poppies ablaze Haiku Avenue, 9, 2025 FYI: Papaver californicum, a species of po...

Thanksgiving dinner mom's back-and-forth monologue on our migrant life Haiku Avenue, 9, 2025

awake to dawn's light another strand of white hair on my wife's pillow Haiku Avenue, 9, 2025

on the rain-stained wall where once a crucifix hung  this night cold and dark Haiku Avenue, 9, 2025

a layer of ice on yesterday’s street puddles weight of the unsaid Haiku Avenue, 9, 2025 reprinted in  5-7-5 Haiku Journal, December 22 2025

cherry blossoms hand her out stretching refugee a child Haiku Avenue, 7, 2025

orchid blossom rain ... the children we dream about but cannot conceive Haiku Avenue, 7, 2025

a dove and a heart painted on his cracked helmet ... a dead aid worker Haiku Avenue, 7, 2025

this taste of mooncakes ... Father sighed, the foreign moon rounder and brighter Haiku Avenue, 7, 2025 FYI:Mooncake is the most popular and...

the clink, clink, clinking of my neighbor's rusted gate Trump Again tilted  Haiku Avenue, 7, 2025

dusty attic box each of these love letters marked return to sender Haiku Avenue, 8, 2025

tenth year in exile tangled thoughts of home dissolve into pre-dawn hush Haiku Avenue, 8, 2025

she's gone at long last the faint scent on her pillow pressed against my heart Haiku Avenue, 8, 2025

crimson sunset view alone again on the edge  of this rocky cliff Haiku Avenue, 8, 2025

MAGA exhibit in the sky Border Control formed by buzzing drones Haiku Avenue, 8, 2025

floodafterfloodweareallinthis t o ge  t   h   e r   a  gain Haiku Avenue, 8, 2025