beguiling allure

shameless in too short summers

Moccasin flower

I hear your echo.

Awaiting your next preening call

I lie motionless.

yield and embrace

lilacs like love-making

intoxicating

always will it be

the universe entire

between you and me

A Breath of Wind- 風の息

A breath of wind
a timeless conversation
an answered prayer.

風の息
時代を超越した会話
と答えたの祈り

restoring the yoke

neglected honeymoon vessel

night paddling

August reunion

wet with anticipation

and heavy dew

"when it rains it pours"

monsoon melancholy

weeping foundations

misty meadow

motives shrouded in memories

still mourning

Sashimi

fresh, sashimi flesh

orange roe on the banks

spring flows and new moss

Sunset in Port-au-Prince

chips of gnashing teeth

shattered china and single shoes

sunset in Port-au-Prince

black pearls in the snow
desolate, windswept,empty field
gutshot

one more bluebird day
invalid spectator blues
September eleventh

like rhinoceros
angry and too shortsighted
admired from afar

Agate Hunting

solo beach-combing
our loves spread out before us
agate hunting

diminished by waves
precious gems ground down, down, down
rock, stone, to pebble

late June fireflies
many a fox is hunting
midnight shrieks and moans

windmill tethered
brooding as the south wind howls
abandoned farm

barn roof weathered
concessions to driving rain
spoiled hay and straw

pigeon feathers
outpost's final occupants
winter a month too long

Ishmael's final waves
in fleeting hurricane's eye
pirates died today

snow snakes in April
chase peepers' slush puddle songs
birth of northern Spring


distance in nearness
an invisible captor
moth in a jam jar

stamping on dead snow
futile fits of impatience
hastening Spring