Monday, June 5, 2023

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

Saturday, June 3, 2023

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

Saturday, May 27, 2023

dandelion patch
what it means
to endure

*Published in the April 2023 issue of Stardust Haiku

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

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

Thursday, April 20, 2023

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

Saturday, April 8, 2023

 under a
growl you
adorn me

*

the mud
above the moss
above the corpse

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

Friday, March 17, 2023

 all my wrath receding tides

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

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

i was and wasn’t
the moth

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

Friday, March 3, 2023

to feel // be
night burning into
radium

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

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

but you were gasoline draped in cyanide

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

Friday, February 24, 2023

a pond is just a

pond and you were
just a hunter looking
//for meat

*Published by dadakuku on 2/22/23

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

almost forty
still learning
how to breathe

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

Sunday, February 19, 2023

 universe

have you ever
unraveled yourself
just to feel

the pulse
of a better life

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

Friday, February 17, 2023

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

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

to deconstruct
a butterfly
a bomb

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

Sunday, February 5, 2023

moon on fire
i still dream
about you

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

Saturday, February 4, 2023

 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

Thursday, February 2, 2023

yknow i crack night like an egg

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

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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

Thursday, January 26, 2023

frost-tipped birdsong
my favorite shade
of indigo

*Published in the January 2023 issue of Stardust Haiku

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

(insert)

sorrow & the tongues of hawks

*Published by dadakuku on 1/17/23

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

 home away from home the breath of a sycamore

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

Monday, December 19, 2022

 stars fall
but you can’t take
the poetry outta me

*Published by Haikuniverse on 12/19/22

Thursday, December 15, 2022

 a row
of mulberry trees
of secrets

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

Saturday, December 10, 2022

 in F minor a darker shade of desire

*

the emptiness
after i
tame the lion

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