May 2011

dawn maiden ...
the long day's journey
into night

autumn love ...
moonlight silences
the rumpled bed

youthful blush ...
Oh! Celia, Celia,
Celia shits!

after the dew,
sunrise ravishes
her bed

autumn sky ...
celebrating
cloud masses

shooting season ...
a refuge of ducks
lower their sights

howling winds
gnash at tossing dreams ...
sea debris

unfolding
from a crumpled sea
this aftertaste

moonlit night ...
the shimmer of goose bumps
on her thighs

a moth sails
the widening gyre ...
candle flame

hidden depths ...
a dragonfly skims
what I cannot

pretending
to forget, I gasp at
a rainbow

purple rain ...
casting words adrift
into God

river fog ...
my hands trace out
what has gone

enso sun -
the negative space of
a full eclipse

sepia moon ...
cuttlefish ripple
through dreams

the long night ...
a monk breaks open
his silence

first date ...
she wants to swim
in my eyes

rising sun ...
my eyes straining
tea leaves

morning mist -
the nameless that haunts
my mirror

autumn dusk ...
long forgotten bottles
bob in the tide

deepening night -
the silence between
heartbeats

cold morning ...
a late rose blooms
a shadow

the scatter
of autumn leaves ...
giggling child

common ground -
the dreams of the forgotten
take a break

the autumn sun
somewhere behind the smoke
of her cremation

the making of
a beggar's banquet ...
open hands

hint of autumn ...
hedgehogs roll out
of wonderland

a power plant
seeding manipura rain ...
radiant spring

full moon ...
she flashes me
her smile