Day’s last sunless light
chisels hillside houses clean,
scatters silvered clouds.
**
That paper-flick sound—
distinct from un-foldable,
non-scratching key-strokes.
**
Settled coffee warms
the wanting stomach—house-chills
wrap ankles and feet.
**
If one were to ask
about these little tellings,
less said is better.
**
healthy love re-fills
itself overflows each cup
more…never enough
**
bulb-flowers bobble
all the paths calling for spring
to just hurry-up
**
March means light meets me
at the door now, horizons
already past-tense.
**
light waves many ways,
often off the spread fingers
of those with no hands
**
—after Nanao Sakaki
flames do re-ignite,
this we know; but it’s hidden
heat that knows the breeze
and passions that glow the same—
just break the mirror old man
**
Someone ate my leeks,
knowing before I the time
had come for harvest.
Cabbages are gone, roots chewed.
Only kale remains, tall and mute.
**
Ants roam at will.
I can’t seem to out-think them.
We seek different things.
**
Chilled air doesn’t stop
ants their long strings of tracking,
nor my following.
**
I dreamed I touched you,
your fingers squeezed in the night
I woke and dropped them.
**
When asked, and it is,
why this left coast, not the right?
Left is right for me.
**
Walking with Jesus?
Many friends and family do.
And I walk with them.
**
That I don’t like you
says nothing of harm or hate.
We may become friends,
your bite become your humor,
your criticism helpful.
**
Those white cupped flowers
Mom loved so much, drip with dew
and last night’s rain drops.
**
How the quiet spreads
around pooled syllables, how
the heart finds its rest.
**
What comes first—motion
or sensor—what of the light—
when and what it shows ??
**
Haiku single out
significance—the old sage
says so, conviction
double-underscored, the pen,
medium pointed smooth blue.
**
Drizzled-grey returns.
Glistening morning streets swish
with songs of headlights.
**
How many checks made
out to who for what—click-click;
again click. All done.
**
Takahashi said
time brakes, time breaks, for no one.
Coffee, and a sweet.
