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 the 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.

walking in the fog II haiku

walking in a fog
trees amble out of the mist
silent still watching

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

parental mistakes - haiku

parental mistakes
sewn inside the poet's coat
hoarded, rarely spent

la folia poems

I

dodecanese (lipsos)
...
sun-cast shadows
scented sheets
lavender and us
touch of skin
the day begins
sounds of being joyus

II

sons - no. 1
...
i am now
what you will be
you are what i have been

we will find
peace of mind
growing in
our garden


III

bread
...
our rise and undoing
and a world in between
is paring us back
to what we have been

one by one
endlessly
we rise and fall
in the empty sea

IV

gov. sarah palin
...
collusion with a priest
in protection from the witch
presupposes
belief they exist

if we all give the power to palin
will we all get the horror of salem?

music haiku

between the fingers
from one hand to another
so the music goes