wrapping

your arms around me

lakeside breeze

envious...

how water moves

with the wind

no make-up

today I greet nature

as I am

diamonds...

what the sun makes

of the ocean

*Published in issue #113 of Hedgerow: a journal of small poems

nightfall

the wind conjures

a ghost story

*Published in the May 2017 issue of Stardust Haiku

weeping willow...

his heart

spilling into mine

*Published by The Mainichi on 5/8/17
**Selected for Haiku in English: Best of 2017 (The Mainichi)

morning cumbia

a little espresso

then a little more

*Published by Ama no gawa on 5/7/17 and translated into Italian by Elisa Allo

Cumbia al mattino
Un po’ di espresso
poi un po’ di più

midday improv

Charles Mingus

on shuffle

spotty internet

blowing the dust

off life

and now

a moment of silence...

dead cellphone

*Published in Issue #17 of Failed Haiku

crimson sunset
what you've said
what I've said

spicing things up
one side of the room
painted orange

one yellow sock
one blue
whatever - no one looks

*Published in the May issue of brass bell: a haiku journal
**crimson sunset was translated into Italian by Eufemia Griffo on her blog Memorie di una geisha:

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