Poetry in the Moment

in the home village this storm-damaged oak tree our initials and overlapping hearts carved deeper than the rest Kokako, 43, 2025

I murmur the return to my homeland ... two parts of me stretch over a preposition and a surging ocean Kokako, 43, 2025

slant winter light the birth steam of a new calf Kokako, 43, 2025 included in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku , 2025

years in exile summer waves lap at the edge of my dream Kokako, 43, 2025

obituary clippings in Mother's catch-all drawer ... winter solitude Kokako, 43, 2025

from tree to tree crying raven after raven ... the night dark  and colder around me since being laid off  Kokako, 42, 2025

post-election blues ... in morning chill yet the jagged twigs of this oak stump stretching skywards Kokako, 42, 2025

first train ride to my father's hometown ... the lengthy chat with this middle-aged man in the rain-streaked window Kokako, 42, 2025

the stubble field catching the last rays of sun ... old man and his dog Kokako, 42, 2025

highway motel  a neon dream to nowhere Kokako, 42, 2025

distant sirens ... I curl deeper into my leftover dream Kokako, 42, 2025

spiderwebs in the slanted moonlight foreclosure sign Kokako, 41, 2024 

first day on parole ... he close his eyes to feel the winter sunshine Kokako, 41, 2024 

braids of black smoke tied and untied by the winter wind Kokako, 25, 2016

divorce talk each sip of tea more bitter than the last Kokako, 24, April 2016

for Susan Sontag white poppy pinned to her son's first suit Remembrance Day Inside the top drawer of her husband's wood...

Like a Chinese coolie laboring in a foreign mine, I try hard to dig out those English words that resonate with my  thoughts of home and pen...

winter rain ... alone in my rented room with a pile of books Kokako, 29, 2018

all these things packed in boxes for Goodwill death anniversary Kokako, 29, 2018

the echo of fading footsteps ... childhood home for sale Kokako, 29, 2018