Poetry in the Moment

trapped alone in the liminal space between shifting present and frozen past ... I gaze up at departing geese on my life journey what might h...

Re-Homing in the Maple Land , XLIII written on Canada Day Eve twilight mist drifting in white ribbons over the river ... thoughts of staying...

blossom on blossom I wish I could  let go of the past Cold Moon Journal, August 1 2025

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

jolted awake  from a recurring dream I murmur is my immigrant past  this black hole of what-ifs? Cold Moon Journal, March 3, 2025

to forget or not to forget my immigrant past ... in the autumn wind even clouds touch and part Time Haiku, 61, 2025

what will remain of my immigrant past? footprints in the snow Japanese translation by Hidenori Hiruta 我移民私の過去の残る物雪に残りし足跡の如 Akita Internation...

a rutted road to the slave cemetery ... an old woman bends under the weight of her ancestral past German Translation by Chrysanthemum Editor...

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

midnight thunder deafening as metal sheets across the sky ... again my father fights his war of ghostly pasts NeverEnding Story, June 6 2024...

long time no see a friend I met years ago greets me with hugs ... my immigrant past now a foreign country NeverEnding Story, May 29 2024 Add...

this paper trail of my immigrant past ... motes in the moonlight   tsuri-dōrō, 19, Jan/Feb 2024

border checkpoint I leave my past and shadow behind the red line First Place, Fifth Annual Mukai Haiku Festival Awards, 2024 FYI: My haiku w...

I close my eyes and slip into childhood ... these ghostly thoughts jostling one another  on the therapist’s couch Shot Glass Journal, 41, 20...

my girlfriend peels back another layer of the onion ... this back-and-forth monologue on our entangled past Shot Glass Journal, 41, 2023

the clock's hands meet as the last customers leave in dim barlight glass after glass this impulse to drink away my past   Haiku Canada R...

my girlfriend peels back another layer of the onion ... this back-and-forth monologue on our entangled past Shot Glass Journal, 41, 2023

day after day. the ghostly past lurking around the corner of my mind ... with a scalpel of words I stab into its heart However, my immigrant...

leaves on leaves ... like a coolie, I dig through ruin upon ruin of my immigrant past to see if there's a future Take 5ive, 4, 2022

winter sunset over my childhood river the past rippling through the present that I can't change Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, October 10 20...