From my mother

from my mother

the wisdom in saving

scraps of cloth ...

inevitable,

the patching to be done

—red lights, January 2014 

EEK. I finally realized I'd already posted this one a few months ago. Why didn't you all tell me, LOL?

Enamored

enamored

of this stained-glass panel

till it strikes me . . .

the image only shimmers

with sunlight behind it

—Atlas Poetica, #14, March 2013

location: a garden shop, Navasota, Texas

It's pretty

it’s pretty

she says while showing me

the sparkling

little gold trinket

she’ll glue inside my mouth

—Atlas Poetica #14, March 2013

Tanka Prose

What if?

It's a city with storybook appeal: clock towers and onion dome steeples, cobblestones, a fortress, rows of colorful little buildings. A local tour guide points out various structures in the near distance.

the gray house

across the Inn River

where Hitler 

lived as a small child 

... when he almost drowned 

Author's Note: Information regarding "when he almost drowned" can be found in the book Out of Passau: Leaving a City Hitler Called Home (Anna Elisabeth Rosmus, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 2004) as well as in miscellaneous articles such as this one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082640/How-year-old-Adolf-Hitler-saved-certain-death--drowning-icy-river-rescued.html.

—Haibun Today, Volume 8, Number 1, March 2014

Her wedding ring

her wedding ring
found deep in red mud
………...that May day
when the tornado
tore through their heartland

Oklahoma, May 2013

—red lights, Vol. 10, No. 2, June 2014