midday hike

our brief journey

on the same path

500-year-old tree

now I know

how the ant feels

foggy cliff

I step into

the unknown

rustling petals

thank you for the reminder

 to breathe

*Published in Akitsu Quarterly Fall 2017
**foggy cliff was published by The Daily Haiku (Charlotte Digregorio) on 10/3/17

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