train shadow
shooting through the trees
(Frogpond, 27:2)
cockfight
sand sprays
my face
cigarette break--sand sprays
my face
(Frogpond, 27:3)
two men with aprons watching
the hot air balloons
(Modern Haiku 34:1)
thunderstorm watch--
a leaf skips over the slipstream
over the interstate
(Modern Haiku, 35:1)
voice mail:
something about the monthly report
and birds
(Modern Haiku, 35:3)
election day
a patch of frozen spittle
on the ground
(Modern Haiku, 36:3)
late for work
sun speeding
through the trees
(Sixth Annual Suruga Baika Literary Festival Selected Works, Honorable Mention)
cirrus wisps--steeping
in the sunrise--the warm whine
of one mosquito
(Potpourri, A Quarterly Magazine of the Literary Arts, 14:2)
***
unemployed--
a pillar of mayflies
swirling in the sun
(The Heron's Nest, 5:10)
butchering a rabbit
cold rain
on my hat
(The Heron's Nest, 6:2)
tipping back
my whiskey glass:
the moon
(The Heron's Nest, 6:7)
graveside
the seeing-eye dog
looks upwind
(The Heron's Nest, 6:11)