November 15, 2023

bottle rockets

Here are the poems I have published in the journal bottle rockets over the years:

a missile
the width of my finger
on the button

October rain
Captain America
shields his candy

singing
the words I don’t know
loudest

out of my arm
I pluck
the bee’s death

spare change
my conscience empties
my wallet

second cup
I stir some sugar
into my headache

rain pelts the candidate’s sign 

I vote for a man who can’t win


the first big snowfall of the season

he remains inside excuses


November 07, 2023

A Hundred Gourds Haiku

Here are all of the haiku I published in A Hundred Gourds, the excellent but long since closed online journal.

punching
through the target
shadow boxer

unable to shake
last night’s dream
day moon

the weight I swore
I’d never gain again
full moon

his
excuse
grows
thin
mountain
air

bent over
too many steps
my shadow

breaking at the surface his moment as a fish

al niente 
mom’s piano
up for sale

autumn dawn
the apple tree
ripe with robins 

morning commute
the horizon bright
with headlights

heavy snow
I shovel the morning
out of my day

dusk
the last orange
deeper in the bowl






September 21, 2023

Frogpond

Here are the haiku, and one haiku sequence, that I have published at Frogpond:

taking
the shape of the wind
her hair

no peeling
back the starfish
summer’s end

wilderness trail 
he wanders off the edge
of his map

night winds
I let her go
to voicemail

pine wood
he buries his fear
of small spaces

another dream I couldn’t sleep through middle age



23

LeBron sweepstakes …
Johnson performs
his Magic

free agency …
the Lakers acquire
new fans

fault line …
the aftershocks
in Cleveland

a new frontier …
the East is left
behind

Showtime …
the spotlight on
L.A.


August 16, 2023

New Resonance 11: My Selection

darkness
her name slips
into it


not looking
ahead too far
autumn fog


night frost
her reptilian 
DNA


evening train
I squeeze into
my headphones


spare change
my conscience empties
my pockets


wilderness trail
he wanders off the edge
of his map


just another phase of the moonlight child


all that shines
in a magpie’s nest…
morning frost


twilight
every bird
a crow


candle smoke
the afterlife
of prayer


fading light
her child’s name
fills the street


more bruise
than banana
autumn deepens


October rain
Captain America
shields his candy


mountain trail…
a bear crosses
my mind


night winds
I let her go
to voicemail


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