Wednesday, December 31, 2008

midnight

midnight--
slowly slipping off
her silk straps

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

winter garden

winter garden--
plaster rabbit
hops away

Monday, December 29, 2008

streams

winter light streams in--
the girl gives her blond hair
one-hundred strokes

Saturday, December 27, 2008

alone

clouds cross the moon--
your back to me
alone in this bed

Friday, December 26, 2008

after Christmas

after Christmas--
poinsettia petals
dropping

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas day

Christmas day--
the girls set the table
without being asked

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

after the party

after the party--
rearranging plates
in the dishwasher

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

piercing cold

piercing cold--
the piercing clank
of the garden gate

Monday, December 22, 2008

wind in the pines

wind in the pines--distant shakuhachi music

Sunday, December 21, 2008

solstice

solstice--
snow falls
embers rise

Friday, December 19, 2008

park bench

park bench--
the sleeping man's eye
fills with snow

Thursday, December 18, 2008

winter burial

winter burial--
the baby's cry drowns out
the eulogy

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

blizzard

blizzard--
deer blinks in the wind
snow-laced lashes

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

snowflakes

snowflakes fall
in monochrome silence:
mute haiku

Monday, December 15, 2008

snow lantern

snow lantern--
lacking spark, lambent
with moonlight

Sunday, December 14, 2008

perigee moon

perigee moon--
unstrung pearls scatter
between us

Saturday, December 13, 2008

winter night

winter night--
a tree cracks
in the cold

Friday, December 12, 2008

last word

soft snowfall--
calling my sister by my name
his last word

Thursday, December 11, 2008

snowstorm

after snow--
yesterday's footprints
a memory

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

flurries

flurries--
two crows perched
on a white cross

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

frozen

frozen pond--
only moon glides across
its dark glass

Monday, December 08, 2008

nativity

venus rising--
nestling the newborn
in Mary's arms

Sunday, December 07, 2008

merging

upon the water
snowflakes merge with essence
like you and I

Saturday, December 06, 2008

advent

advent chocolates--
finding today

preempted

Friday, December 05, 2008

sock-mates

winter night--
unable to find
my sock's mate

Thursday, December 04, 2008

pearls

frost moon--
I reach for mother's
pearl earrings

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

bed of roses

on the rose
snow finds a fragrant

winter bed

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

winter sky

winter sky--
a skein of wild birds
unravels

Monday, December 01, 2008

veil

veil of fog--
looking over oranges
a veiled woman