potted lavender

our differences

set aside

*Published by Memorie di una geisha on 7/29/17 and translated into Italian by Eufemia Griffo:

lavanda in vaso
mettiamo da parte
le nostre differenze

late spring

a wild rose

greets the sun

*Published on Memorie di una geisha on 6/13/17 and translated into Italian by Eufemia Griffo:

tarda primavera

una rosa selvatica

saluta il sole

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:

tramonto cremisi
quello che hai detto
quello che ho detto

mushroom risotto 
the way my mother said
keep stirring

unshelled pistachios
my father
on marriage

*Published in Frogpond 40:1
**unshelled pistachios was featured in on down the road (the Haiku Society of America's 2017 member's anthology), and The Daily Haiku
***mushroom risotto was translated into Italian by Eufemia Griffo in Memorie di una Geisha:

risotto ai funghi
il modo in cui mia madre ha detto
continua a mescolare

mimosa tree

her dress climbs

a little higher

*Published in the March 2017 issue of Stardust Haiku
**This haiku was translated into Italian by Eufemia Griffo on her blog Memorie di una geisha:

albero di mimosa
il suo abito sale
un po’ più in alto

autumn dusk

the lengthening

of solitude

*Published in Hedgerow: a journal of small poems issue #109
**this haiku was translated into Italian by Eufemia Griffo on her blog Memorie di una geisha:

crepuscolo d'autunno
il prolungamento
della solitudine