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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Selected Haiku: Winter Twilight Haiku

winter twilight
an old man and his dog
share the shadow

VerseWrights, November 2014
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Friday, July 27, 2018

Selected Tanka Jesus' Gaze Tanka

inside the church
the congregation praying
under Jesus' gaze
two Romani women
in the trash-littered square

VerseWrights, September 15 2014
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Selected Haiku: Blood-Stained Lily Haiku

blood-stained lily...
I lock her secret
in a haiku

VerseWrights, September 15 2014
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Friday, June 22, 2018

Selected Tanka: Flight and Fright Tanka

white flight, white fright ...
my Chinese roommate
practices "l" and "r"
before the window
as the moonlight slips in

VerseWrights, March, 2014
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Thursday, June 21, 2018

Selected Tanka: Someone and Something Tanka

we were all
someone and something once ...
this migrant
sees himself in me
seeing myself in him

VerseWrights, March, 2014
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Selected Haiku: Rain Striking Rain Haiku

rain striking rain ...
the firmness of her breasts

Haiku Novine
VerseWrights, March, 2014
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Monday, April 9, 2018

Selected Haiku: Morning Frost Haiku

the weight of her name ...
on a blade of plum grass
morning frost

VerseWrights, December 11. 2013
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Friday, January 12, 2018

Selected Tanka: Day's Shroud Tanka

holding my book
in the crook of her arm
she smiles at me
the spring sun heaps
rubies on the day's shroud

VerseWrights, April 16, 2013
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Surfboard Haiku

between the blueness
of sky and sea
girl on a surfboard

VerseWrights, September 2015
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Twilight Haiku

he said, she said
lingering in the room...
twilight deepens

VerseWrights, September 2015
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Country Church Haiku

unlit votives
in a country church
the stale smell

VerseWrights, September 2015
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Brown Spots Haiku

brown spots
on my graduation photo ...
my hands too

VerseWrights, September 2015
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Illness Haiku

his day punctuated
by the beeps of a machine ...
cicadas cry

VerseWrights, September 2015
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Rain Haiku

the steady patter
of rain on the roof ...
winter solstice

VerseWrights, September 2015
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Sunday, October 18, 2015

Sex Worker Haiku

the texture
of a sex worker's lips
Valentine's night

VerseWrights, September 2015
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Friday, September 25, 2015

Darkness Haiku

a crow's cry
flies into darkness ...
alone with myself

VerseWrights, September 2015
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Death Tanka

in the depth
of a winter night
I peer
into the mirror:
Death with half-closed eyes

VerseWrights, November 2014
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Monday, December 29, 2014

Moth Tanka

I raise
my husky voice,
I'm a poet ...
the word useless like a moth
flying around my heart

VerseWrights, November 2014
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Twin Kites Tanka

twin kites
soar high in the sky ...
a pair of eyes
looking down
on my childhood dream

VerseWrights, November 2014
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Tea Party Haiku

spring tea party
the sound of pastry
snapping

VerseWrights, November 2014
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