a seagull ...
lifting the sun
with its wings
thunderstorm
the moth beats shadows
into the ceiling
The above two in A Hundred Gourds December 2013
chalk
art...
nude women
trampled
in Boston
Commons
Prune
Juice Feb 2014
closing time
old men gulp down
their dreams
Published Rusty Truck, July 2014
The following three tanka are in Skylark
2:2, Winter 2014:
crows fill
the afternoon sky
that storm
in your eyes when I ask
unbidden questions
thirty years past
measured by birds' flights
kissing me
once for the good days
at my goodbye door
arrowheads
from old battles
buried
beneath yet another mall
dead before its time
the following tanka is in cattails spring/summer 2015
thorned roses
braided through her hair
the bloom
in her cheeks deepens
with my lover's glance
The following three haiku are in the Feb 8, 2016 issue of Hedgerow
Journal
a
cross
sears the moonless night
my southern childhood
sheep
in the road...
where were you last night
when I needed you?
glass slippers
displayed in the pawn shop -
hard times
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