a slow cut

across my breast

killer moon

*Published by horror senryu journal on 3/29/21

 oh yes

it has been months

since it has been warm enough

to warrant the opening

of my apartment’s windows, and i

cannot get enough of this fragrance

the grass mixed with the trees

mixed with the swirls of my neighbor’s

nighttime cigar, and oh yes

this is what it means to live

to experience the aroma

of all that is alive

*Published by Central Coast Poetry Shows on 3/27/21

 faraway étude

the dusk within

a blue sea

*Published in the March 2021 issue of Stardust Haiku

 field of stars

when i read the poems

of Mary Oliver

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 3/21/21

 honestly

in the end

i can assure you

i will not fret over

my lack of kale consumption

or the dollar amount resting

in my sundry bank accounts

instead i will ask myself

if i loved

if i lived true

to the pullings of my soul

and if i dedicated my life

to pursuits worthy of my time

*Published in Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems #22

 we need you

from plankton to galaxies

and everything in between

you are

and always will be

a necessary component

in this vast circle of life

*

and so i listen

to the wind and rain

the mountains and leaves

for the whispers of my creator

to once again fill

my ever-ready heart

*Published in Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems #22

 his scent a moonlit maple

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 3/14/21

gratitude

while watching

flakes of snow fall

i am thankful

to be here

to witness

this beautiful life

*

oh this makes me smile

during winter

i like to imagine

spring flowers

waiting patiently

but eagerly

to see us again

*Published in Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems #22

warfare

no one asked me

to be perfect

not even God

and yet here i am

demanding of myself

what no one ever wanted

*

over darkness

if you woke up today

held your head high

then you

my dear friend

have claimed victory

*Published in Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems #22

 until death do us part a sprig of hemlock

*Published by horror senryu journal on 3/12/21

 whole again among the lake and trees

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 3/11/21

 why have a name when you can be known as

the sound of a rainbow forming

after a warm spring rain

or the feel of a magenta twilight

resting upon a dewy rose

*Published by Skyway Journal on 3/9/21

 eternal

speak to me

in the language of rain

sweetly, gently

in the language

of a time without end

*

darker roads

so often

i am the night

covering the earth

with an ache

even i

have yet to name

*

reversal

i want to be

the snow that falls

upon your breath

to know you

as i once did

before dusk

ruled day

*Published in Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems #22

 Frida Kahlo

a flame rises

within the night

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 3/8/21

 babbling brook

this too

is peace

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 3/7/21

 wasting

five reduced-fat

crackers for lunch

and you salivate over

the withered meat

i have become

*Published and performed in the March 2021 issue of Versification

 motherless

i pull the moon in

a little closer

*Published in the March 2021 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal

 modern love

he swings with

a girl on video

*

February 14th

i crank up

My Bloody Valentine

*

empty wine bottle

you like it when

i’m easy

*Published in Suspect Device Zine (Turning Japanese #4)

**Nominated for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Individual Poem Award by the editor