acid mt. fuji

my room is dark, save for the glow

of my computer screen

& i'm moving to music

moving with music as if

i were no longer human

but a verdant leaf or hydrangea

or a pile of dried earth that lifts & twists

with each burst of hot wind

i touch

the air behind the air & finally

remember the space

between my lengthy dreams

and you weren't there

as you had previously always been

& perhaps

this was simply a chance

to be the person i was

before

before

*Published by Skyway Journal on 4/24/23

not even spring

my hands rush to greet

the freshly bloomed daffodils

*Published by Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective on 5/9/23

dandelion patch

what it means

to endure

*Published in the April 2023 issue of Stardust Haiku

did you know

that peonies can live

for more than 100 years

and sometimes

a poem doesn't need to be

about anything more

than that

*Published by Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective on 4/23/23

before the wildflowers

i am only

a shadow

*

and then i turned to him and said

listen to the highway

it sounds like death

*Published by Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) on 4/19/23

 under a

growl you

adorn me

*

the mud

above the moss

above the corpse

*Published by horror senryu journal on 3/10/23

 all my wrath receding tides

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

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