Foodbank Closed Haiku

foodbank closed

a stray dog scratching

at its shadow

Fireflies' Light, 30, 2024

Wonder Bread Senryu

Wonder Bread

dipped in condensed milk ...

Easter breakfast

Failed Haiku, 7:78,  June 2022

(FYI: Wonder Bread is a brand of sliced bread that originated in the USA in 1921)

Lobster Tanka

snow starts to fall ...
a homeless man meets the eyes
of a lobster
waiting for its fate
in a restaurant window

Revision, Atlas Poetica, 24, 2016

Peking Duck Haiku

evening breeze
the taste of Peking Duck
on her fingers

Cattails, 3, 2014

(Note: Peking duck, a dish that has been prepared since the imperial era, is considered a national dish of China)

Carp Soup Tanka

looking out a window
across Lake Ontario
the aroma
of crucian carp soup
fills the gaps in my heart

VerseWrights, September, 2014

Note: Crucian carp soup is one of China’s favorite dishes