PUBLISHED POEMS

Post tsunami
amidst the rubble—
a stone Buddha’s smile

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Even the giggling
school girls pause
Nagasaki bomb museum

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It must be a gift
from the Pure Land—
a thistle’s purple bloom

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Drop after drop
of summer rain
so glad I forgot my umbrella.

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Tomorrow Lhosar begins—
tonight we polish offering bowls

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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

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