svetlana alliluyeva poem

what many fail to see
is that my father
was a very good communist

mandolin haiku - part 2

mandolin in hand
step outside in the moonlight
... music, life - ah life!

mandolin in lap
what became of old girl friends?
life is long music

feral cat haiku

back door left open
freshly made bed with clean sheets
tell-tale cat hairs

walking in the fog haiku

dark and menacing
tree trunks looming through dense fog
reality check

"into the wild" haiku

arms and legs thrashing
fighting against the current
traveling downstream

- written after seeing "into the wild" - sean penn's film about the short life of christopher mccandless.

the hunter haiku

a deer bows to drink
hooves and tongue ripple the lake
reflections waver

parental mistakes - poem

...

gold in the folds
of the poet’s coat

clumsy, parental hands
threading and needling
hard-edged currency
between the woven layers

a wealth of defining moments
to be counted and recounted

- written after reading the collected poems of william corbett