i was and wasn’t

the moth

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 2/20/23

to feel // be

night burning into

radium

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 2/20/23

but you were gasoline draped in cyanide

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 2/20/23

a pond is just a

pond and you were

just a hunter looking

//for meat

*Published by dadakuku on 2/22/23

almost forty

still learning

how to breathe

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 2/20/23 

 universe

have you ever

unraveled yourself

just to feel

the pulse

of a better life

*Published by Scarlet Dragonfly Journal on 2/19/23

avalanche

when i gaze

into my past

*

winter

but i am always

ravenous

*

then watch me dissolve into the cosmos

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 2/2/23

to deconstruct

a butterfly

a bomb

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 2/1/23

moon on fire

i still dream

about you

*Published by horror senryu journal on 2/3/23

 scent of pine away from the hustle

*

until i can no longer mourn this dried up river

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 2/2/23

yknow i crack night like an egg

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 2/1/23 

deep into the umbra

i learn to

love again

*

arctic

this bed

without you

*

when the wind slows down the milkweed

*Published in the winter 2023 edition of The Bamboo Hut

frost-tipped birdsong

my favorite shade

of indigo

*Published in the January 2023 issue of Stardust Haiku

(insert)

sorrow & the tongues of hawks

*Published by dadakuku on 1/17/23

 home away from home the breath of a sycamore

*Published in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue on 12/28/22

 stars fall

but you can’t take

the poetry outta me

*Published by Haikuniverse on 12/19/22

 a row

of mulberry trees

of secrets

*Published by The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue on 12/14/22

 in F minor a darker shade of desire

*

the emptiness

after i

tame the lion

*Published by horror senryu journal on 12/9/22

 boundless

the stars within

a rose

*Published in the December 2022 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal

serpent’s seed all over your tongue

*Published in the Poetry Pea Journal 2.22

new moon

i choose to live

dangerously

*Published by Scarlet Dragonfly Journal on 11/21/22

vermilion sky and also you

*Published by The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue on 11/16/22

when i close my eyes all the stars

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 11/4/22

dewdrop

all i want

is to be soft

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 11/4/22

 an untamed garden the story before our story

*Published in the November 2022 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal