PUBLISHED POEMS
Post tsunami
amidst the rubble—
a stone Buddha’s smile
Publication: Lynx: AHA!
Even the giggling
school girls pause
Nagasaki bomb museum
Publication: Lynx: AHA!
It must be a gift
from the Pure Land—
a thistle’s purple bloom
Publication: Lynx: AHA!
Drop after drop
of summer rain
so glad I forgot my umbrella.
Publication: Lynx: AHA!
Tomorrow Lhosar begins—
tonight we polish offering bowls
Publication: ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK
Neighborhood Vignettes
1
Old red bike
overgrown with green
spokes and vines
entangled lovers
from lives past.
2
Economic samurai
blue shirt and tie
on motor bike rides
off to do battle with delicate hands.
3
A dog barks,
a slow car from behind,
a bike and then a distant train’s rumbling.
Oh, a neighborhood side street.
– MATTER; Wolverine Farm Publishing
A scholar throws his books away
reads the lines
on an old woman’s hand
– Improv: Anthology of Colorado Poets; Green Fuse Press
As if searching
for something
in this storm
the box elder
knocks at my window.
– American Tanka: Issue 19, a year of buttons
A cold foot
nudges her awake–
first snow
Publication: ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK