Door open, closed only wind in place. — Off Course, issue 48, 2012 #poem #poetry #micropoetry

What happens two shadows together? Which one gives shade to the other? --- Off Course, issue 48, 2012 #poem #poetry #micropoetry

Sang deep into my sound watching what I did not watch the self sings alone --- Off Course, issue 48, 2012 #poetry #poem #micropoetry

I could not stop smiling when I offered open hands to your lap no birds were singing but I could hear a moth flying towards the moon — Third Place, Mad About Cherita Contest, 2018 #cherita #poem #poetry #micropoetry

leaving your hand for the air to take it away I visit your apartment again barely able to breathe Lake Michigan glimmering in the lack of stars --- the cherita, issue # 2:2, July 2018 #cherita #poem #poetry #micropoetry

waking up at dusk under a lifeless cedar the shadow of a branch expanding into a sky without stars — the cherita, issue # 2:3, August 2018 #poem #poetry #cherita #micropoetry

I rise with the city because I am one of its lights.

The Window I will write a poem when I am dead, like no hand had written it— the calligraphy of a pine branch brushing a stationary cargo-train window, notifying my plastic body left where it unlit its skin that words have graves. Somehow I listen. --- Forty Ounce Bachelors, 2010 #poem

I left your home when summer heat calmed the nightingale’s call— you have also soothed my voice to compassionate whispers --- Atlas Poetica, spring issue, 2015 #tanka #poetry #poem

the color of the lily has faded in vain . . . whether blazing sun or torrential rain I search for you — Atlas Poetica, spring issue, 2015 #tanka #poetry #poem

white plum blossoms . . . the babble of schoolchildren lulls me to sleep — Folk Ku, issue #6, 2025 #haiku #poetry #poem

broken hyperlink— a gingko leaf rests on the sill — Published in Folk Ku, issue #6, 2025 #haiku #poetry #poem

Here are my selected poems of 2025 PDF. They range from experimental to traditional. I hope you enjoy reading them 🙏 #haiku #poetry #poems #2025

what a joy to be nothing after the rain my barren garden glitters — Atlas Poetica, spring issue, 2015 #tanka #poetry #poem #micropoetry

I wake up without the story of myself with no voice cloudless rain — Atlas Poetica, spring, 2015 #tanka #poetry #poem

in the park a butterfly shadow on the marigold my niece's first birthday without her father — NeverEnding Story, November 15th, 2016 One Man's Maple Moon, Volume III, 2017 #tanka #poetry #poem #micropoetry

incensed quiet a photo of you on the altar I could not stop smiling that night in the airport when I gave you a tulip --- Ribbons, fall issue, 2016 #tanka #poetry #poem

the peak of Mount Rainier covered in mist how long will we call this a marriage — NeverEnding Story, September 9th One Man's Maple Moon, 2018 #tanka #poetry #poem

Featured on Haiku Commentary: meditation music … a kitten’s purr slips into incense — Samo Kreutz queueing for coffee an elderly man counting his change — Tuyet Van Do a story cut short earthworm — Bonnie J Scherer #haiku #poetry #senryu #commentary

a chestnut tree sectioned by a window pane— I don't want memories only the vibrations of your proximity — Le Lumachine, December, 2018 #tanka #poetry #poem

moonlight in the lamp— your voice accompanies my meditation though you left before I knew you — Le Lumachine, December, 2018 #tanka #poetry #poem

at dawn the seed-eating birds . . . I visit your birthplace to forget the name you gave me — Le Lumachine, December, 2018 #tanka #poetry #poem

summer storm— mother’s perfume wafts from her altar into the sky and back again — Ribbons, Fall issue, 2018 #tanka #poetry #poem

My review of "Haiku 2024: 100 Notable Ku From 2023," edited by Scott Metz and Lee Gurga (Modern Haiku Press) is up on the Frogpond website! #haiku #bookreview #book

the dust of father's papers on my index finger— no snow this winter — Second place, Tanka Time, 2018 #tanka #poetry #poem

A new verse from @haikuforlife.bsky.social: 𝗡𝗮𝘄𝗿 Umber amber slumber pentameter conquistador at the front door with candor about slander and banter as a deciduous cancer prancer half-full incantor of pantheistic wonder brought asunder by the revamping of Tumblr — Nicholas Klacsanzky

no moon no sun just a field of dandelions damp with shadows of our ancestors — Atlas Poetica, August issue, 2019 #tanka #poetry #poem

fragrance of acacia . . . let people think I am only walking while I step into thoughts of you — Atlas Poetica, August issue, 2019 #tanka #poetry #poem

a rain-soaked cigarette butt— my wife and I have something to say after all — UHTS Fleeting Words Tanka Contest, Honorable Mention, 2019 #tanka #poetry #poem

the rattle of hanging pine cones— a day before my wife and I touch again — Atlas Poetica, issue 38, 2019 #tanka #poetry #poem

swallows leave . . . I dive further into the dark-matter eyes of my beloved living as a picture — Ribbons, Fall issue, 2022 #tanka #poetry #poem

Palms I still feel a breeze emanating from my palms. With a broken ocean inside me archaic habitats have shifted with the rush of reconnaissance for a trail to shed the letters of my name with a pliant tongue one mention to the next. — Impspired, issue 21, 2023 #poetry #poem

Fresh Snow Let me dream of faces not showing our history. My mistakes null like fresh snow. The evening bright and the paths given to me at birth led back to frozen grasses. Fading light will filter in our room where years of disquiet accumulated into a misshapen mouth that cannot sound my name.

sudden thunderstorm— glimpsing the universe with closed eyes — Haiku Shack, issue #5, 2025 #haiku #poetry #poem

forgotten ancestors breathing in more mountain mist — Haiku Shack, issue #5, 2025 #haiku #poetry #poem

Updates to Haiku Commentary: - No more ads for a pleasant reading experience - New haiku contest starting in May 2026 called "The George Klacsanzky Memorial Haiku Contest" - It's now "haikucommentary.com" Happy New Year! #haiku #contest #updates

Featured on Haiku Commentary graduation party every firework ember falling to earth — John Shiffer withered flowers on the temple chariot morning twilight — Sathya Venkatesh protesters marching wearing sweatshop shoes — Michael Battisto #haiku #senryu #poetry #poem

swooping sparrow . . . our voices fade into the pines --- Published in Haiku Shack, issue 5, 2025 #haiku #poetry #poem

the apple orchard where I stole for lunch just another street now of identical houses and identical smiles — Ribbons, spring/summer issue, 2023 #tanka #poetry #poem

Zen Zoom meeting the koan read with glitches and now somehow better understood — Failed Haiku, June, 2023 #tanka #kyoka #poetry #poem

bird droppings on the red alder leaf I leave the smudges on the painting to themselves — Failed Haiku, June, 2023 #tanka #kyoka #poetry #poem

barefoot I want moss for skin soft and tangled like a beard grown for religion — Presence #76, 2023 #tanka #poetry #poem

a fly in the subway lamp not being able to exit my skin — Presence #76, 2023 #tanka #poetry #poem

jasmine evening— the only thing that can console me is the loneliness I’ve hidden away — Five Fleas, 2023 #tanka #poetry #poem

A bell A bell excavates a sanctuary inside my skull. There I capture strains that belong to a realm without resonance a desert where silence performs for silence. When I no longer thirst I will be able to stay there, eavesdropping on the absence of myself. — Five Fleas, 2023 #poetry #poem

forming emptiness emptying form fempty eorm nessi — dadakuku, journal of micro dadaist poetry, July 9, 2024 @dadakuku.bsky.social #dada #haiku #ku #poetry #poem

a forest trail lands me in a golf course where the rich putt into the whispers of douglas firs and stolen totems — Ribbons, fall issue, 2023 #tanka #poetry #poem

sunlight warms the tabla’s skin her resonance an ellipsis in my lungs, speaking with all words at once — Chrysanthemum, autumn issue, 2023 #tanka #poetry #poem

light snowfall . . . the scent of the family guitar on my sweater now hanging for the moths — Take 5ive, October issue, 2023 #tanka #poetry #poem

the first linnet is singing, pushing back memories I want to look into your eyes to return to non-self only care — Take 5ive, October issue, 2023 #tanka #poetry #poem