Passing Fire truck- The leaves of the Flame Maple ripple Call to prayer- kneeling at the corner transit bus #haiku

poker game the gunman asks to see our hands #haiku

on the river— the queen of spades in crescent light #haiku

GOOOOOOOAL ! Congrats to Os Tubarões Azul for being the 2nd smallest nation to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. Nu Bai!!!

a hole in the clouds— in the Gaza sand a yellow barrette #haiku

What about— a trace of the moon in the midnight sky— almond blossoms #haiku

The moon drops one or two feathers into the field. The dark wheat listens. Be still. Now. James Wright

sun shower we make ramen noodles with Fiji water #haiku

Nuff said.

flashing lights in the cop’s aviators fireflies #haiku

after the shooting the sound of my son’s voice on a cell phone #haiku

evergreen even round midnight the pine #haiku

abandoned church— the cast off shell of a cicada #haiku

Rest In Power ✊🏼

Welp!

These exhibits spotlight 600 female artists in DC area

THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE PURCHASE FOR ME!!!!!

There are very few things that can't be made better—at least temporarily—by a bowl of cheesy grits.

HBD to WCW

Was walking across Pitt’s campus and saw some beautiful people taking a selfie, so I photobombed them.

Her poem “Conversation” haunts me to this day. www.poetrynook.com/poem/convers...

baseball game how easily I catch popcorn in my beard #haiku

in the clearing dharma becomes dragonflies #zen #haiku #poetry

when you're Autistic & thirsty but the good glass u like to drink water out of is in the dishwasher so u have to wait

ghost prints in a lavender dawn a dove’s cry #haiku

sin thesis the escalation of erasure #vss365 #senryu

This book comes out in February, I can’t wait!

Clemente Day 2025 at PNC Park.

what red and green leaves freshly made pesto roasted tomatos #haiku

all night long a breeze rustling the trees cicada song #haiku

Mary sweet mother of Jesus in a blue onsie.

a bent man draws the Fall sky through a horn #haiku

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

There is an unrelenting honesty that's needed to have a democracy, but very few folks that aren't Black folks want that type of honesty about this country.

Welp! Life ain’t the only thing that comes at you fast.

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been playing around with a new form I call the Cosmos after the flower. 16 syllables mostly but not always 4 syllables on four lines. This one was fun.

a sea bird facing forward looking back— Orpheus terns

20 years ago this month, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. For so many New Orleanians, our lives are demarcated by this moment. If someone ask you about an event or memory from the past, we say “was it before or after the storm?” On this twentieth anniversary, I wrote about going back home.

my first ever attempt at a haiku in Japanese— murasaki yo nokoru kimono no yūhi kana oh the purple of her remaining kimono evening sunset #haiku

Jimi has to win for “All Along the Watchtower” because after Dylan heard the cover he only performed Jimi’s version of the song himself. No other cover that I know of can make that claim. Having said that Billy Stewart’s version of “Summertime” is—whew! youtu.be/CDLDl0_pt_k?...

For those who celebrate...🪑'23.

I love this so much. youtu.be/qQ2DZEnVL3k?...

thorn pricked finger— a slash of crimson on the woodpeckers head #haiku

My reaction to that completely batshit press briefing by Tulsi Gabbard in which she accused Obama of “treasonous conspiracy” is that whatever is in the Epstein files about Trump must be really really bad

barely hanging on in this elevator plum blossoms #haiku

new necklace crescents of her laughter my religion #haiku