Pre-Smuggs Insomnia
Haibun Poetry It’s a quarter to one in the morning. Cricket songs, and the ever-present drone of Thruway traffic, pass through our open bedroom windows. We’ll be on our way to Smuggler’s Notch...
Tagged: new poetry
Mind over Body
Poem Look at me when I am all dressed up in the best Western clothes, in the best Indian clothes. Look at me when I am all dressed down, Walking quietly down the...
All You Need Is Just a Step
Poem Leave the darkness of your room, and make a step outside the door, and you’ll see a world never seen before, when gazes go beyond the golden sand, the lonely shore, where...
Where Did The Moon Go?
Poem I woke up last night and looked at the sky silence surrounded me water mixed with rainbows and I was waiting for the moon where did the moon go? another evening went...
Hippie Pies
Happy Life Poem Music Flies, The sky pass before me, floating into neverland of thank yous. Papa says you’ll have another apple pie, flee past Mama’s weird ambush of juices I cry not...
Walk (for S.)
Poem It’s like the face of water, the quivering glisten of dusk intimating little yet all, at once. It’s the nape of the breeze, arcane notes of salt and aquatica as churns the...
Chasing Wonder
Poem An adventure up in the hills In the wind and sun Finding the canyons Green and yellow And the brothers climbing Through the boulders Children at heart Friends flying on swings Over...
A Tumultuous Zazen
Haibun Coldplay’s “the Scientist” plays. Dreamlike imagery arises: a woman handing out cuvards; a drop of Jesus’ blood. Always returning to “wind.” Breathing The bell gongs. I can’t stand up as the others rise...
Dirty Photos
Poem The night is hot and long summer! Talks and smokes, drinks to keep us cold all day long Smiles and laughter but my blood is blue What is life if not a...
