Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chance, haiku, in love with life, luck, poem, tanka on February 20, 2013| 6 Comments »
my whole life
preparing me for this moment—
10:19 p.m.
*
rolling down my window
to ask directions, hearing
a chorus of birds
*
new snow on the grass
this, too, the scent
of exploded stars
*
please, I said
to the sun, don’t go
some part of me
reveling in asking
the impossible
*
my whole life
preparing me for this moment—
10:20 p.m.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, moon, morning, nightmare, short poem, tanka on February 19, 2013| 5 Comments »
mama! she shrieks
I throw back the sheets, leap
run naked through night
but can’t make it into her dream
the place she needs me most
*
whatever the moon
says, that is what I
say, too
*
rushing out
to smell the morning
before its gone
there will be other mornings
but only one like this
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christie Aschwanden, haiku, poem, poetry, stories on February 16, 2013| 6 Comments »
Talking with Christie Till 2:45 a.m: Three Haiku
not every story
ends this way
the end
*
I wish, she says,
someone told me it doesn’t
get easier
*
on the driveway
finding ourselves
in the universe
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged disappearing, haiku, losing the self, poem, poetry, tanka on February 12, 2013| 4 Comments »
mostly fallen down
the barbed wire fence—
what’s it to the birds?
*
listening
for the moon—
sound of a heart
*
that hyacinth leaf—
staring at it until it is
no longer leaf
*
in the window
the boy waves at himself
saying he won’t stop
until the other boy
stops waving
*
poet, can you rhyme
with the cherry tree
in spring
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged freedom, haiku, illusion, poem, poetry, story on February 11, 2013| 5 Comments »
wearing that story
for so long I forgot
I had slipped it on
*
bad hem day—
tripping on my own
once upon a time
*
rumors of my self
catch on morning sun, snag on
the wake of herons
*
with one hand, I stitch
the small tears, with the other,
I rip out the seams
*
naked
the scent
of hyacinth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged habit, haiku, inattention, poem, poetry on February 4, 2013| 2 Comments »
how seldom I see it
that ponderosa pine
I pass every day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chickadee, haiku, inspiration, song on January 25, 2013| 3 Comments »
flat gray sky
the chickadee sings
no less brightly
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged death, haiku, life, Regret on January 16, 2013| 3 Comments »
doing it all again
I’d do it the same only
this time no regret
*
I told her
I only sing songs—she said
save me
*
little brown mouse
on the road, I swerve uncertain
which of us should live
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, happiness, poems on January 12, 2013| 4 Comments »
standing in the snow
dreaming of standing
in the snow
*
my daggers
letting them gather dust
regardless who walks in
*
starting a fire
remembering even good logs
need space to burn
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged circe, genie, haiku, poem, sirens, surprises on January 10, 2013| 2 Comments »
ears stuffed with wax—
now hearing Circe
on the inside
*
scraping the ink
off my pages, sending it
for biopsy
*
one palm open
in surrender, the other
rubs the genie lamp
*
not for your pleasure
the winter bird sings—
it sings
*
thinking I outgrew
myself, finding out
I still fit
*
surprise! the genie
says no to three wishes
gives fifteen instead
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allowing, approaching the world, haiku, new lens on January 5, 2013| 4 Comments »
like playing piano well
this love, practicing
every day
*
show me, said the leaf
another way to see
the fall
*
trying to find
an oracle when it’s really
just a broken glass
*
cranes in the field!
or just geese—bidding the heart
to swell equally for both
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flute, friendship, haiku, harmony, poem, Wendy Videlock on January 5, 2013| 2 Comments »
for Wendy Videlock
impossibly sweet
two notes played at once
on one flute
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beginnings, haiku, poem, poetry, prayer on January 3, 2013| 3 Comments »
just like heaven
–Katie Melua
she said, girl you ain’t
got a prayer, and I thought that’s
a fine place to start
*
odd, all this snow
around, six below, and here
we are blossoming
*
in the bowl, reflection
of sky—kneeling
I drink it
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allowing, beginning, haiku, losing the self, name on December 25, 2012| 2 Comments »
on the wall
those shadows so much larger
than our problems
*
in the frost
on the window she writes
her name
*
recalling all those
prayers
I never learned
*
like a worm in kale,
something nibbling
all night on her dreams
*
air, snow, shadow, wind
she loses any names
she has been given
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged daughter, haiku, loss, mother, move, poem on December 24, 2012| 2 Comments »
pretending not
to cry, I throw out the herbs
she dried, she grew
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cold, haiku, hands, love, poem on December 22, 2012| 3 Comments »
so cold I could al-
most forget about your hands—
not quite.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, end of the world, haiku, mayan calendar on December 20, 2012| 3 Comments »
so pink-ly the dawn
blooms out of night as it would
if I were not here
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged darkness, door, haiku, hope, poem on December 15, 2012| 2 Comments »
between the night
and the fear, a door appears
a dark bird sings, sings
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged carpe diem, gratitude, haiku, impermanence, loss, love on December 14, 2012| 5 Comments »
every day the right day
to smell the lily as if
never again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged change, haiku, poem, poetry, sand on December 13, 2012| 5 Comments »
but it was written
in stone, said the woman
to the sand