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

 beautiful

the weeds

in my garden

*Published in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue on 10/26/22

“i don’t write love poems”

i said

before i

met you

although i’m too shy to admit this

when i ask

how the stars are tonight

what i mean is

i want to be there with you

believe me

i want to tell you everything

but in order to do so

i would need

to strip down to the bone

and do you understand

my dear

how frightening it is

to be so raw

you fall asleep so quickly

and that’s fine with me

to see your golden waves, spilling

over your closed eyes, dreaming

is perhaps

one of the most beautiful things

i have ever seen

and after the pepper spray

the rise and fall

of your belly

was the only thing

that stilled me -

that held my scream

inside

recently

while on a walk i saw

a small white butterfly

it moved more easily than

a quiet summer breeze

*Published by Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective on 10/8/22

 not like the other girls in the grinder

*Published by horror senryu journal on 10/6/22