Looking over the blank page - I eat the olive. #haiku

自我と無我の境や #桃 の皮むき the thin line between self and no-self— peach skins 🍑 #俳句 #haiku

. I was twenty one when I wrote this, twenty two now but not for long …time hurries on, and the leaves that are green—they turn to brown 🍂 #senryu #tanka

#葉桜 やもとの隣人なつかしき sakura leaves I miss the old neighbors #俳句 #haiku

紫陽花や子の餅ふみを祝いし hydrangeas she turns one today #俳句 #haiku

窓席や #松の緑 を通りけり window seat the green of the pines a blurred streak #俳句 #haiku

#紅葉 のごときに鬢の白髪かな autumn leaves the greys at my temples 🍂 #俳句 #haiku

martini glass: full when I started writing —now empty 🍸 #haiku

海がひきつつあつめけり #汐干貝 making the most of the low tide: sea shell gathering 🐚 #俳句 #haiku

憂き世なり先行きむかえパクチーかな to face what lies ahead in this fleeting world— sidewalk cilantro #俳句. #haiku

#霧 入り抜けたら誰になるのかな passing through fog— who will come out the other side? #俳句 #haiku

雨があけ世にかかりけり朝の #霧 after the rains, morning fog envelops the world #俳句 #haiku

セメントの罅にパクチー栄えけり to find flavor in the least likely of places concrete cilantro #俳句 #haiku

#引き鴨 や片足で一眠りけり two ducks napping on one foot the journey home #俳句 #haiku

all my friends and I agree your latte sucks ass— they’re just out of view #senryu

boutique latte: the subtle art of destroying civilization ☕️ #senryu

*I’m* not the problem— your salted caramel soy mocha latte is 🙄 ☕️ #senryu

啓蒙や種別するくせこれ #サクラ the Enlightenment tendency to classify this is Cerasus 🌸 #俳句 #haiku #川柳 #senryu

他のもの閉じ合わせなき紙挟み all there is holding it together single paperclip 📎 #俳句 #川柳 #haiku #senryu

. remnants of a memory slipping into oblivion sticky note #haiku #senryu

. the weight of my own procrastination unopened mail ✍️ #haiku #senryu

. suffering my own ineptitude red sock in the whites 🧦 #haiku

. the relentless march of time moldy bread 🍞 #haiku

. polished spoon a warped self-image 🥄 #haiku

spoiled milk the cereal that could have been #haiku

white blood cells, once vanquished the invaders, turn on oneself #senryu

wine dark sea the deathless waves gulls on a quay 🌊 #haiku

naught but rusty nails inside the drawer beside a hammer lightly used #haiku

institutions rise, and fall, and yet the tide keeps rolling ever on #haiku

trajo un poco del calor del Caribe un buen conejo 🇵🇷 #haiku #badbunny #SuperBowl

名が消され惜春したる #紅葉 かな redacted names elegies for stolen youth leaves now turned 🍂 #俳句 #haiku

saw a shirt: “God is dope,” it said— sure is #senryu

Pivot to Asia is just infrastructure week for the IR crowd #senryu #Venezuela #Iran #Greenland

#氷 より冷酷なものなきにけり Nothing more unforgiving than 🧊 #haiku #俳句

なげきつつ官に #雪玉 なげにけり grief, and snowballs at agents #俳句 #haiku #reneenicolegood

#隙間風 よわき蝋燭けせぬかな draft through the jamb too weak to snuff the candles #俳句 #haiku

シャンパンで忘年会にうかひけり New Year’s Eve party floating from the third champagne 🥂 #俳句 #haiku

教会の合唱うたふキャロルかな old church the choir sings carols #haiku #俳句

ピカピカととなりの家が見えにけり so sparkly— cannot unsee the neighbors’ roof 🎄 #haiku #俳句

#ストーブ の上に靴下かかりけり wet socks draped over the wood stove 🧦 #俳句 #haiku

帰り道窓の蝋燭ひかりけり guided home by the candles lighting each passing window #俳句 #haiku

古： 年々がながれきえさる #落ち葉 かな 今： 年がたち局のけしさるメールかな Tired: years pass and fallen leaves vanish Wired: years pass and the bureau deletes your old e-mails #俳句 #川柳 #職場俳句 #haiku #senryu

海の渦の如きに #雪 ふりにけり snow swirling like the ocean all along the windowpane #haiku

金剛の如しかがやく #サンドレス sundress shining like a diamond in the fog of night #haiku

ignoring a LinkedIn request from your mom #senryu

trouble ahead for the train circling the tree: a crouching tabby #haiku

choosing between a new console for the kids or the turkey this year #haiku #senryu #shutdown

Legos on the floor of the house my neighbors left when the whistles shrieked #haiku #senryu

pocket the seeds, so at least sunflowers grow when you all lay here #haiku Слава Україні 🇺🇦

rose petals flowing back upstream onto the bush, forgotten no more #senryu #memorypolice