Selected Senryu: Old Man and Willow Tree Senryu

watching an old man
talk to the bare tree ...
I feel less alone

Revision Failed Haiku, 1:11, November 2016

Selected Tanka: Love Affair Tanka

two butterflies
zigzag through a curtain
of willow ...
once again our love affair
leads to nowhere

Cattails, September 2016

Light and Shadow Haiku

the interplay
between light and shadow
wind in the willow

Frogpond, 41:3, Fall 2018

Selected Tanka: Hand-to-Hand Combat Tanka

in the shade
of a weeping willow
a war veteran
takes on shifting shadows
in hand-to-hand combat

Atlas Poetica, 19, 2014

Spring Haiku

sunlight breaks
through willow trees by water
spots of gold

Spring Issue of Haiku Ramblings