still haunting me
from time to time in dreams ...
your jet-black hair
highlight-streaked to cover
the gray you now must have
—Modern English Tanka 3, Spring 2007
H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Snapping ends
snapping ends
off fresh asparagus—
this brisk fall day
the satisfaction
that comes with clean breaks
—Ribbons "Tanka Cafe" ("endings" theme), Winter 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
At the ER
at the ER
a fleeting connection ...
the screams
of an unseen stranger
echoing mine
—Atlas Poetica, #18, Summer 2014
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Drawn to sweetness
They live in our house,
fleck-sized species of their family.
Have marched miles, as if
from San Antonio to Houston,
in dampness and crushing heat.
Through minute cracks,
they welcome themselves inside,
scale guts of walls until,
for them, nirvana.
Their barracks behind kitchen tile
and bathroom mirror,
they lap up microspecks
of apple juice and minty mouthwash.
I am a poor host,
half-heartedly remorseful.
To think, all that distance—
and then when rations are found,
wiped clean away with a corner
of moistened paper towel.
I console myself with knowing
each troop will soon enough
be replaced by another.
—Ash Canyon Review, Summer 2005, vol. 1, no. 1
fleck-sized species of their family.
Have marched miles, as if
from San Antonio to Houston,
in dampness and crushing heat.
Through minute cracks,
they welcome themselves inside,
scale guts of walls until,
for them, nirvana.
Their barracks behind kitchen tile
and bathroom mirror,
they lap up microspecks
of apple juice and minty mouthwash.
I am a poor host,
half-heartedly remorseful.
To think, all that distance—
and then when rations are found,
wiped clean away with a corner
of moistened paper towel.
I console myself with knowing
each troop will soon enough
be replaced by another.
—Ash Canyon Review, Summer 2005, vol. 1, no. 1
Saturday, October 11, 2014
In noonday sun
in noonday sun
a buttermilk racer
hugging the house –
as I inch closer
my fear slinks away
—A Hundred Gourds, 3:3, June 2014
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Announcement: An Unknown Road
Thought I'd point you to an award-winning haiku collection that's available through Amazon Kindle: An Unknown Road by Adelaide B. Shaw, poet/writer and fellow blogger. Travel with Adelaide on a journey through the seasons—across farmland, along railroad tracks, by hills and streams, in the garden, and at the shore. Enjoy her truthful, down-to-earth style. Also see Potpourri, Volume 1, a short story collection.
Sunday, October 5, 2014
The Three Graces; reflections
The Three Graces
—Skylark, 2:1, Summer 2014
The Three Graces: click link for photo/info
reflections
Beauty, Joy, and Charm
linked in dance ...
if I were the fourth
what would be said of me?
—Skylark, 2:1, Summer 2014
The Three Graces: click link for photo/info
reflections
leap off the water ...
a statue
beside the Roman Pool
of Diana and the Stag
—Atlas Poetica, #18, Summer 2014
both tanka: Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA
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