silently a blue heron lands behind the steep bank and vanishes

(individually wrapped)

individually wrapped pieces of rain

pardon me

pardon me governor pardon me

not just the dust of stars insects too

chapped sky peeling husks of summer

stitches in his eyelids ripening plums

cerebral spinnerets silence spun

(luna moth)

luna moth her see-through skirt

cathedral spire lost priest in a thunderstorm

future whispers echo acoustic redundant

soup kitchen former people form a line

[modern haiku 42.2]

the mosquito oblivious shortest night

[black hole]

turbulent sky the holy city pointed out by a black hole

summer solstice thyme blossoms

full moon rising crows with tattered wings

monk's no-poem spilled his no-mind in his no-hat

(suspecting)

suspecting rain in everything he does

red lights: illegal tenderness for legal tender

slowing down traffic the decommissioned cop car

butterflies – how fitting – in my language it's about summer and birds

three doughnuts a hole in the bakery cashier's math

thick these scabs obligation of blood

even the time we spent together was a shadow

(at once)

white sheets all your prayers at once

(that stone)

if you aren't going to skip that stone I'll eat it

flowerbed empty dead crow's eyes

death: what’s outside the fishbowl

neighbor's money flies out the window cable TV

cool april tulips spring first kisses

spirit owl full the hollow of her call

not my fault later and later sunrise

in the baby shampoo postpartum tears

empty dandelion stems recovered memories

grinding an axe to split hairs the troll