April 2012

pain carves
a pretense of words ...
chiselled moon

words spiral
into ink smudges -
falling leaves

dewfall ...
bread rises
from words

foetal moon ...
the heartbeat flickering
in these candles

pale fire
snatching blossoms
from the sun

flea-bitten child -
an apparition of
cherry blossoms

mist reveals
each valley's fold...
secret flux

creaking joints -
again he brings down
the house

gnawing at
the dream of myself -
spring reflection

dimming light ...
black swans dissolve
before me

river fog -
the murmur of
foetal dreams

mirror mist ...
the name of God
runs in beads

Fukushima ...
an efflorescence
blossoms

leaves on edge ...
menacing winds
on the move

fallen leaves
going the distance ...
field of dreams

morning star ...
dewdrops moisten
worm cast mounds

second day ...
what stones weigh down
those wings?

rough-hewn wood
yields now to nails ...
tree of life

paschal moon ...
the light within
death valley

one by one
leaves fall away ...
autumn wind

distant spring ...
rain trickles over
autumn leaves

silent spring ...
the song in my heart
has sprouted wings

waiting room -
shadows lengthen
the queue

with nightfall
even embers spend
their passion

day of reckoning
the penitent renders
his due

after summer --
even embers spend
their passion

cats in love -
the familiar ache
from this touch

second childhood -
a pendulum clock
now marks time

autumn fog ...
brush strokes level
a mountain

gliding
out of season -
black swans