monostich

2012-02-13T14:43:00.001Z

fast becoming some things you're not

(my favorite thing, bottles rockets press, 2011)

2012-02-13T14:40:00.001Z

cabs lined up first warm day

(Modern Haiku, 2011)

(candle)

2012-02-11T00:46:00.000Z

dusk a candle on the tongue

2012-02-08T16:17:00.000Z

my new hat left on the southbound bus evening rain

2012-02-06T15:30:00.000Z

how should I put this broken window

#nahaiwrimo

2012-02-05T06:32:00.000Z

thought slowly rolling away turtle-shaped cloud

2012-02-02T20:45:00.001Z

(storm)

2012-01-31T11:27:00.001Z

storm I break against myself

(newborn)

2012-01-29T14:15:00.003Z

3626 grams of human expansion tbc

2012-01-28T20:00:00.000Z

no escape chemicals for years now and again a snowflake

2012-01-26T21:43:00.002Z

gas station parking lot bear tracks the only patron

2012-01-26T13:59:00.000Z

half a joint the hum of the fan

(bottle rockets #26)

(slats)

2012-01-26T03:05:00.001Z

rocking chair what the slats are for

2012-01-24T17:33:00.000Z

the convict's long stretch on a stone cot morning workout

2012-01-23T14:11:00.002Z

funeral everyone's breath

(bottle rockets 26)

2012-01-21T17:34:00.001Z

dreams a butterfly monkey and bee I do doo-wop in Motown

2012-01-18T16:59:00.000Z

Wikipedia blackout fanboys' day of mourning

(nail)

2012-01-15T12:47:00.000Z

sailing the tear duct a nail from the Arc of Sorrows

-
(Published Taj Mahal Review, Vol. 10, no. 2, Dec. 2011)

2012-01-11T18:35:00.000Z

the price of petrol melting frost

2012-01-09T19:27:00.000Z

the stories it could tell -- the january moon

2012-01-06T12:39:00.000Z

ten filthy hats from a clear blue sky hush, my loins

2012-01-06T01:59:00.003Z

wishing star fades this permanence

2012-01-05T16:12:00.000Z

curve of her shoulder evening stroll

(Jan. 5, 2012, Daily Haiku)

2012-01-05T15:47:00.000Z

hatsuyume does the poem end?

2012-01-04T19:50:00.002Z

a child's trust how tiny the stars are

2012-01-02T15:26:00.002Z

orphaned fawns quench their thirst a rain-filled bomb crater

2012-01-01T21:09:00.000Z

new year's day again

(home again)

2012-01-01T20:40:00.001Z

home again this new year smells of her

2011-12-29T21:29:00.000Z

what you left behind river canyon

(for Woody)

2011-12-29T01:47:00.000Z

these words eat tyrants

2011-12-28T16:06:00.000Z

a beggar singing in the rain pennies from heaven

2011-12-26T05:34:00.001Z

jingle bells the tinkle of frozen crabapples

2011-12-22T17:22:00.002Z

winter solstice at Gitmo darkness forever

(shifting the weight)

2011-12-21T23:09:00.000Z

winter solstice I shift my weight from one foot to the other

2011-12-20T18:56:00.000Z

with one breath the mourning dove's high coo

2011-12-19T15:59:00.000Z

just a doorway on an empty street homeless refuge

(without a hat (again))

2011-12-18T18:52:00.000Z

sometimes a man or vending machine 'neath clouds without a hat

(crossing)

2011-12-18T05:06:00.001Z

crossing a river off my to-do list

2011-12-18T04:54:00.000Z

Salvation Army kettle the difference between want and need

2011-12-17T20:12:00.001Z

my little girl's smile first snow

2011-12-16T22:22:00.001Z

buttering pans the room's only sound

2011-12-16T15:59:00.000Z

how heartlessly you bring me to tears sweet onion

(again December)

2011-12-14T16:40:00.001Z

again December looking for a womb

(ellipses)

2011-12-14T14:30:00.002Z

year's end the ellipses of crows...

2011-12-13T13:28:00.000Z

wind sound shapes the winter darkness

(old soul)

2011-12-11T03:04:00.000Z

no stiff water yet you have an old soul she tries

2011-12-10T22:58:00.001Z

digging trenches digging graves dignity

(immigration)

2011-12-09T18:51:00.001Z

spacious skies above the border line

2011-12-07T04:17:00.001Z

itallcomestogether in the darkness for the owl

(don't forget)

2011-12-05T17:57:00.001Z

don’t forget your name fritillary

2011-12-05T17:43:00.002Z

”the weather continues …” I zap on to confrontations with a shark

2011-12-05T06:02:00.001Z

winter stars so few poets

2011-11-30T19:15:00.000Z

father and son on opposite sides of darkness

2011-11-25T05:17:00.001Z

Black Friday what we didn't learn from Black Tuesday

2011-11-24T16:49:00.000Z

no moon nights he never came home

[Rose]

2011-11-24T13:10:00.000Z

loosing what is left her name is Rose again

2011-11-23T02:15:00.001Z

business trip results conventional sex

2011-11-20T02:23:00.001Z

Arab spring-European winter epoch hunter coin flip

2011-11-18T17:04:00.000Z

cold kisses the night of your farewell

2011-11-16T15:46:00.001Z

the woodpecker breaks the silence of the dying evergreen

2011-11-15T19:05:00.001Z

the distance between us the closeness binary stars

2011-11-14T03:42:00.000Z

burned coffee waking up to Monday

2011-11-11T19:39:00.000Z

raindrops, too, have nowhere else to fall

2011-11-10T00:18:00.000Z

broken filaments starless autumn sky

2011-11-09T23:54:00.000Z

subtext the layers of the empress' kimono

(still)

2011-11-09T12:25:00.001Z

gone the spider still the web

2011-11-08T16:47:00.001Z

holy war: death by ancient literature

(modern haiku 38.2)

2011-11-08T15:07:00.002Z

absent light for most things a coin with holes

(gravity)

2011-11-08T02:06:00.000Z

gravity we settle on a name for it

2011-11-07T04:35:00.001Z

moon landing the metallic thud of the mylar balloon

2011-11-03T17:34:00.001Z

Ringo 3:16

2011-11-03T01:45:00.001Z

poof day of the dead moth returned to dust

Happy Halloween

2011-10-31T14:48:00.000Z

spooked by the autumn wind leaves scatter

2011-10-31T03:46:00.000Z

laundry Sisyphus sighs

2011-10-30T18:25:00.002Z

broken moonlight I will have to know you again

2011-10-28T21:15:00.000+01:00

dragon's claws ripped the indigenous karst

2011-10-27T00:24:00.000+01:00

ripe persimmons bowing three times with mother's memorial prayers

2011-10-26T17:07:00.000+01:00

frosty morning without a home Hell looks inviting

2011-10-24T13:58:00.002+01:00

squirreltail each thought overleaping in leafdance light

[onion]

2011-10-22T11:15:00.000+01:00

this onion never finishes after all I'm a ordinary man

2011-10-18T17:58:00.000+01:00

moss covered stone Buddha's bare belly winterized

2011-10-17T22:16:00.000+01:00

leafless elm the wind takes a bough

(autumn rain)

2011-10-17T19:26:00.001+01:00

autumn rain my reincarnation as yellow

2011-10-10T21:06:00.002+01:00

as if it didn't matter October rain

2011-10-07T22:14:00.000+01:00

today a little of everything midnight soup

(memory holes)

2011-10-04T19:05:00.001+01:00

moth wing memory holes in the moonlight

2011-09-30T18:23:00.000+01:00

the clouds the day most of his son came home

2011-09-29T13:46:00.000+01:00

windswept willow singing to the moon

2011-09-29T13:44:00.002+01:00

black holes a fugue by Bach caught in gravity

(dragonflies)

2011-09-29T02:43:00.001+01:00

dragonflies charting the silence between me and the clouds

2011-09-27T22:18:00.000+01:00

cars stopped in front a movie theater's reels

2011-09-25T20:12:00.000+01:00

lingering by the sunlit asters hoverflies

2011-09-25T15:57:00.000+01:00

bluejay the voice of dawn

(no more)

2011-09-23T17:47:00.001+01:00

no more thinking runnels of rain

[sunset]

2011-09-22T11:05:00.002+01:00

sunset don't read too much into it

September 19th

2011-09-20T05:57:00.000+01:00

The dirt in the pot of mint smells like mint.

2011-09-19T13:47:00.002+01:00

under the blanket of time a dissolving face and mine

2011-09-18T16:25:00.001+01:00

midnight unwinding a string of dreams...

(unhemmed)

2011-09-16T14:15:00.001+01:00

unhemmed haiku this length of neck threaded

(the anniversary)

2011-09-11T22:53:00.001+01:00

the anniversary our shadows standing slightly apart from us