Sunday, June 28, 2009

Lusty Orion
chasing seven sisters
may need blue pills

Saturday, June 27, 2009

morning downpour
hardly noticed by those two
lovers at a beach

Friday, June 26, 2009

rain - sheets of iron
grays out the sky in an instant
morning downpour

urban tanka

sky so gray erases
luxury condos that block
waterfront view

stormy afternoon weather
does what zoning couldn't
he laddles some soup
into a chipped bowl
unsteady his hand

Tuesday, June 23, 2009


Orange Band: -- your song
tweee-wee -- could not be heard
over bulldozers' roar

Monday, June 22, 2009


co-Kee! co-Kee!
green frog on a leaf sings
evening, Mayaguez

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

your green eyes light up
a lovely summer's evening
memories of home

Sunday, June 14, 2009

St. Joseph the Carpenter


hands strong and skilled
shaped wood into needful things
once held our Lord

Thursday, June 11, 2009

death at the Holocaust Museum

mourning doves calling
flags at half staff slowly wave
some bow their heads

Monday, June 8, 2009

Summer Bird wins
soaring above the Belmont field
eagle among wrens

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

so many puddles
-- splaaaaash - he jumps in with both feet!
mom's new white dress