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

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