Monday…
black coffee burns
my sore throat
☯
Damp haystack…
scabbard
dabbed in dew
☯
Wet knot,
unstretched…
limp between trees
☯
I remember
I remembered
(that’s all)
☯
Has
the fly on the wall
any ears?
☯
Insufficiencies
leave her weeping…
near midnight
☯
I claim,
no gain…
(it simply rolled back)
☯
Elephant,
fading on the wall…
fall twilight
☯
Bathyscaphe
unmanned…
let the fish look in
☯
The year’s dregs…
one window,
open to rain
☯
Third Avenue tent…
pale smoke
from zippered flap
☯
The end
of a Charles Lloyd record…
gulls flapping
☯
tanka:
Sunbreak…
(how I waited!)
just in time
for
sunset
☯
Year’s last
quarter moon
beats the sunrise
☯
Two kites,
pinned to the awning…
flutter south
☯
Dawn,
too long ago…
that cracked plate
☯
Slurred snow…
she lets the dog
bite its stick
☯
Ice storm!
Only the gulls…
only the gulls
☯
Christmas Day…
roach in the bathroom…
(back to bed)
☯
Foggy dawn…
no rush
to wash the rice
☯
That storm
kissed elsewhere, between
dawn and dusk
☯
Storm
opens its pocketbook…
scattered showers
☯
tanka:
That stoop–
twenty years back
an argument
over
one book
☯
New Year’s Eve…
canned rapper from the street
sounds hoarse
☯
New Year’s Eve…
old man cleans his teeth
in the sink
☯
