Saturday, January 31, 2009

stargazing

stargazing--
is it a star or plane,

that pulsating?

Friday, January 30, 2009

spring rain

spring rain--
how the polished rock
parts the river

Thursday, January 29, 2009

rumor of war

rumor of war--
lightning chars

the sweet olive

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

lunar new year

lunar new year--
the baby waves her
dumpling fists

Monday, January 26, 2009

snowbound

snowbound--
the boundless form
of silence

Sunday, January 25, 2009

inauguration

inauguration--
the new mom wiping tears
with a burp cloth

Saturday, January 24, 2009

starlight

starlight--
slow dancing long after
the music ends

Friday, January 23, 2009

bitter wind

bitter wind--
all the sweetness captive
in this clementine

Thursday, January 22, 2009

hunger moon

hunger moon--
the deer's neck stretched to reach
the last tree bark

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

deep winter

deep winter--
fragile ice fringes
the meadow pond

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

midwinter night

midwinter night--
holding a hug longer
to hear her heartbeat

Monday, January 19, 2009

Tanka

train platform--
unmistakable scent
of English Leather
the man even looked
a bit like my father

Sunday, January 18, 2009

fork in the road

fork in the road--
the sign points
both ways

Saturday, January 17, 2009

flood waters

flood waters crest--
a coffin bobs
to the surface

Friday, January 16, 2009

matins

breaking
the water basin ice--
matins

Thursday, January 15, 2009

evensong

singing again
her favorite lullabye--

evensong

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

snowmelt

the taut plunk
of a cello string breaking--
snowmelt

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

winter moon

ferrying night
from dusk to dawn
winter moon

Sunday, January 11, 2009

snowed in

snowed in--
a child etches her name

in window rime

Saturday, January 10, 2009

paperwhites

paperwhites...
in her pale, blue-veined hand
the teacup trembles

Friday, January 09, 2009

another year

another year--
to blow out the candles
two breaths


Happy birthday to Magyar too!

Thursday, January 08, 2009

fresh snowfall

fresh snowfall--
losing her last baby tooth
my daughter's gapped smile

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

individuality

light snow in aspens--
in the mirror, all that
is and is not me

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

moonrise

winter night--
from the lake a silver blob
breaks free and rises

Monday, January 05, 2009

Gaza new year

Gaza new year--
fireworks ring in
warfare

Sunday, January 04, 2009

blossoms

camellia blossoms--
The pink-fisted baby
grabs my finger

Saturday, January 03, 2009

blue

crystal winter skies
counting the shades of azure
through bare branches

Friday, January 02, 2009

shadow

winter sun--
my shadow writing haiku
beside me

Thursday, January 01, 2009

new year

new year--
a phone call
from an old lover


this new year
resolving

not to make resolutions