Haiku Anew

2007-12-09T20:32:00.001-05:00

floating in the tub
he blinks and yawns
asking for his mom

2007-12-09T20:30:00.000-05:00

six stops after
the doo wop guys she's still smiling
singing to herself

2007-10-08T20:18:00.000-04:00

my three year old's
lithe naked body
jealous

2007-08-28T15:28:00.000-04:00

furious
at my father for
losing his mind

2007-08-21T08:56:00.001-04:00

forty five
my body's changing
fast

2007-07-30T20:39:00.001-04:00

silence on pbs
for twelve soldiers killed in Iraq
all of them just kids

2007-07-25T13:35:00.000-04:00

every day
scanning the headlines, waiting
for the story that changes things

2007-07-16T11:58:00.001-04:00

the stitch on his pants
moves, turns out to be
a caterpillar

2007-06-29T12:53:00.000-04:00

son loses his crib
daughter loses her first tooth
dad gets a wheelchair

2007-06-25T11:45:00.001-04:00

off my glance
she covers her iPod
this american life

2007-06-22T09:28:00.001-04:00

can't change a twenty
mr softee gives her a cone
on credit

2007-06-14T08:58:00.000-04:00

glancing at the news
hoping something
has changed

2007-06-05T13:21:00.001-04:00

a row of SWAT team cops
surround an apartment building w/
signage - training in progress

2007-05-17T19:09:00.000-04:00

memories
of spring revelry
with friends

2007-05-09T13:25:00.000-04:00

inheriting my
father-in-law's dad day cards
after Papa Sam passes on

2007-05-02T10:10:00.000-04:00

blossoms flutter
blanketing the ground
no cannonballs

2007-04-29T19:40:00.001-04:00

email address book
changing "mom and dad"
to "mom"

2007-04-05T09:44:00.002-04:00

at 4 each day, Canadian
geese make water landings
in the backyard swimming hole

2007-04-05T09:43:00.001-04:00

lighting a stick of nagchampa,
I turn off the music of people
on the porch outside

2007-04-02T11:47:00.000-04:00

walter mosley
walking in the rain on 12th
in beat-up sneakers

2007-03-26T13:53:00.001-04:00

standing alone at the march
holding a picture of her
dead 21 year old son

2007-03-22T10:04:00.000-04:00

waiting at the Ivy bar
in an REM t-shirt
feeling like a bum

2007-03-20T10:29:00.000-04:00

getting off the plane
in Los Angeles, remembering
my plan to diet

2007-03-19T19:18:00.000-04:00

6 AM, 6th Ave
upstream uptown, in a sea
of yellow cabs

2007-03-06T13:39:00.000-05:00

early March
drops of pizza grease freeze
on the paper plate

2007-03-01T12:03:00.000-05:00

subway panhandler
i look down at his shoes
as if that means something

2007-02-26T12:10:00.000-05:00

extra pump of mocha
"pairs well" with this book
about child slavery

2007-02-20T18:36:00.000-05:00

spider weaves
in dusty corner
the cat sneezes

2007-02-18T18:49:00.000-05:00

on the speed dial
it still says
"mom and dad"

2007-02-11T20:36:00.000-05:00

90 year old man
10 mph down sunset blvd
nobody honks

2007-02-08T09:48:00.000-05:00

morning coffee
no paper, no phone, no iPod
just leafblower

2007-02-05T21:01:00.000-05:00

back patio
they break out their cell phones
and cigarettes

2007-01-23T11:02:00.000-05:00

January 6th
seventy degrees
it's a beautiful day?

2007-01-14T18:44:00.000-05:00

changing my son's diapers
wiping my father's ass
the circle of life closes

2007-01-01T22:04:00.000-05:00

fireworks for some
car bombs for others
new year's eve

2006-12-25T23:50:00.000-05:00

cab ride home
Mahmoud plays
Christmas songs

2006-12-22T12:45:00.000-05:00

christmas list wish
fast forward past
christmas

2006-12-19T16:00:00.000-05:00

5am cab to JFK
Brooklyn is dark and empty
driver, coltrane, and me

2006-12-10T19:40:00.000-05:00

hasidic guy
reads The Fine Art of Flirting
in Barnes and Noble

2006-12-07T23:45:00.000-05:00

christmas season
mall full of women
in burqas

2006-12-07T11:02:00.000-05:00

by glimpsing
in fact preventing
a 'lost wallet' Odyssey

2006-12-05T13:22:00.000-05:00

asleep with a new collar
the cat rolls over
with a jingle

2006-12-04T18:27:00.000-05:00

panting to catch
up bent over
in downward dog

2006-12-04T18:26:00.000-05:00

contemplating sameness
the artist silkscreened one
more canister of soup

2006-12-03T16:25:00.000-05:00

autumn foliage scorches
the horizon line forest
fires in Esperanza

2006-11-29T22:04:00.000-05:00

on his cell
bragging about
his yoga class

2006-11-21T15:29:00.000-05:00

F train heads underground
caught in the draft, the
monarch butterfly follows

2006-11-15T17:38:00.000-05:00

the LA sunset -
unspectacular but the
sliver moon takes my breath

2006-11-04T13:42:00.000-05:00

another
soldier casualty
in Karma, Iraq

2006-10-30T15:59:00.000-05:00

like braille
fingers caressing over
scabbed mosquito bites

2006-10-25T18:14:00.000-04:00

E-2 on the kiosk
"expectant mother parking"
Los Angeles

2006-10-18T14:16:00.000-04:00

missing person - reward
age: 15 height: 6 ft
distinguishing marks: none

2006-10-14T14:06:00.000-04:00

cool dawn
walking the dog
a squirrel forages

2006-10-03T12:54:00.000-04:00

from across the platform
body language shows
domestic argument

2006-09-27T10:55:00.000-04:00

talking politics
the table empties and
I talk to myself

2006-09-10T11:33:00.000-04:00

F train field trip
eight boys, six gameboys
one teacher

2006-09-09T09:47:00.000-04:00

haiku production was down the year I sent out my laundry

2006-09-05T01:08:00.000-04:00

aswing in hammock
across the spiderweb
capturing sun

2006-09-04T17:47:00.000-04:00

stepping barefoot
into cat litter
I thought I'd vacuumed

2006-09-04T11:29:00.000-04:00

plant sale signs
hang in the garage
waiting for next spring

2006-08-30T19:21:00.000-04:00

two snails
in the lint trap
alive!

2006-08-25T22:49:00.000-04:00

I watch her blush slowly
deepen – as she rakes brush
against pale cheek

2006-08-24T11:23:00.000-04:00

calling my father
on his 73rd birthday
he knows nothing about it

2006-08-12T21:55:00.000-04:00

in vineyard
the wayward
rosebush

2006-08-11T11:14:00.000-04:00

clear plastic bag
tied round a tree trunk,
threadbare kata

a silken scarf
wrapping the post
of the stupa's shrine

2006-08-10T07:15:00.000-04:00

reading about his death
i eat another brownie
it will sink in tomorrow

2006-08-04T21:26:00.000-04:00

summer heat
sitting by the pool
of melted butter

2006-08-02T14:53:00.000-04:00

100 degrees
standing in shadows
waiting for the light

2006-08-01T23:25:00.000-04:00

the dried brittle pine
cone resembling
tempura battered shrimp

2006-07-26T10:24:00.000-04:00

at the industry dinner
talking about families
and diseases

2006-07-22T16:34:00.000-04:00

hypnotized
by the droning buzz
in the barber's chair

2006-07-19T10:52:00.000-04:00

i pay bills
while my five year old sings
on the toilet

2006-07-18T11:03:00.000-04:00

conjugal bliss blast
overt leak squeak overheats lip peace
bring out "talking stick"

2006-07-15T15:53:00.000-04:00

idling in
city summer traffic
blowing bubbles

2006-07-12T22:22:00.000-04:00

focusing on how life
sucks, remembering
there's a beer in the fridge

2006-07-12T14:21:00.000-04:00

teenage couple necks
on the platform as train doors
open, then close

2006-07-10T09:42:00.000-04:00

"Fun for the kids.
Fun for everyone.
So shut up and have fun."

2006-07-07T08:04:00.000-04:00

looking in
the mirror seeing himself
looking in

2006-07-06T09:20:00.000-04:00

cell phone ad tagline
"summer lovin'" and I wonder -
are people fucking them now?

2006-07-02T00:26:00.000-04:00

the Anger Demon is stupid
which only makes
the Stupid Demon angrier

2006-07-01T05:29:00.000-04:00

lazy saturday
cleaning crusted food out of
the TV remote

2006-06-30T23:35:00.000-04:00

while doing yoga on
the bedroom carpet, face to
face with dried husk of junebug

2006-06-27T10:31:00.000-04:00

thank god
the water can't come out of the hose any
faster

2006-06-25T17:06:00.000-04:00

unemployed -
obsession causes inertia causes
unemployment

2006-06-24T03:16:00.000-04:00

no surer way
than the road you
just left behind

2006-06-22T23:11:00.000-04:00

zafu comes in handy
to kneel upon
while sanding the teahouse floor

2006-06-20T21:13:00.000-04:00

breaths held
for the flyover
of ashes scattering

gathered too late
on the wooden deck
we miss the drop

the birds watching
on telephone lines the birds
in his poems

2006-06-20T16:45:00.000-04:00

stirring Metamucil
into organic cider
with my engraved baby-spoon

2006-06-20T13:34:00.000-04:00

hot June overnight
breezeless on the top floor
awake

2006-06-19T09:27:00.000-04:00

a lightning bug
losing his way
in the hall

2006-06-16T08:55:00.000-04:00

starting to fathom
that all good things
must come to an end

2006-06-12T16:47:00.000-04:00

flies eat guts
of the smashed snail
my film is dying

2006-06-12T12:01:00.000-04:00

paging through
the ragged dictionary
back to another time

2006-06-09T13:17:00.000-04:00

off the glass door
his reflection
smiling at mine

2006-06-05T11:08:00.000-04:00

thunder cracks
the baby lays sleeping
like a baby

2006-06-05T10:43:00.000-04:00

how many houses
around this old school
use old desks as nightstands?

2006-06-02T15:23:00.000-04:00

shaded side
of the screen door
yellowjacket's nest

2006-05-27T16:33:00.000-04:00

old yellow pickup truck
turning the key
hoping it will start

2006-05-25T16:34:00.000-04:00

spinning the cup
in the saucer
instant memory

2006-05-25T13:51:00.000-04:00

the network
downed beneath
the wireless cloud