Happy Halloween

spooked by the autumn wind leaves scatter

laundry Sisyphus sighs

broken moonlight I will have to know you again

dragon's claws ripped the indigenous karst

ripe persimmons bowing three times with mother's memorial prayers

frosty morning without a home Hell looks inviting

squirreltail each thought overleaping in leafdance light

[onion]

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

moss covered stone Buddha's bare belly winterized

leafless elm the wind takes a bough

(autumn rain)

autumn rain my reincarnation as yellow

as if it didn't matter October rain

today a little of everything midnight soup

(memory holes)

moth wing memory holes in the moonlight

the clouds the day most of his son came home

windswept willow singing to the moon

black holes a fugue by Bach caught in gravity

(dragonflies)

dragonflies charting the silence between me and the clouds

cars stopped in front a movie theater's reels

lingering by the sunlit asters hoverflies

bluejay the voice of dawn

(no more)

no more thinking runnels of rain

[sunset]

sunset don't read too much into it

September 19th

The dirt in the pot of mint smells like mint.

 

under the blanket of time a dissolving face and mine

midnight unwinding a string of dreams...

(unhemmed)

unhemmed haiku this length of neck threaded

(the anniversary)

the anniversary our shadows standing slightly apart from us

[ . ]

speaking my mind in one word loneliness

(autumn coming)

autumn coming a long slow hunch