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...
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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...
Confessions of a Poet
Poem These words just sound silly to me Reflecting my lack of verbal fluidity My slow, diminished mental acuity Laid out in ink for the world to see Yes, you could say I...
Losing You
Poem ah, that’s right Life, it takes a toll The demands we fight without selling our soul when, we live this existence we enjoy what it yields live in it with malice our...
Use Your Mind
Poem above ground always accepted and always admired you shared your thoughts with me while I looked in the distance half listening there was something in the air that day a light along...
Ten Minutes
Poem Ten minutes early and I bide my time Sliding into the corner Of the cafe sanctuary Not alone am I We hide Savor the few minutes That are our own Ten minutes...
First Dokusan
Haibun Poem I step from behind the screen. Sari sits lotus on the zafu atop a large zabuton. A second zafu lies before her. Bowing, I enter. Bow to her. Sit. She smiles....
Lead Me to Temptations
Poem Lead me to temptations As the drops of icicles melt into the earth Allow divergence to tithe its unsorted dues To preach its oaths of mans sports As once-constants fall away, left...
The Sickness
Poem The day starts; she’ll be fine…so much to do. She’ll make a list, but those things can wait until she does such and such. She’s dreading the moment that she’ll be alone....
