Elsie

bovine love:
something in the way
she moos
attracts me like
no udder lover

Impermanence

a cloud
there just a moment ago
a life

Getting Old

ancient Monadnock
you've vanquished me
and shown me my age

For Haiku Heights

Post Road

newly laid asphalt
the car glides
through granite hills

Arachnoid Travel

a single silken thread
drawn across the windshield
spider road trip

Senior Housing

head-sized Hybiscus
bloom outside
while they wither within

Quasi

chill out Quasimodo
don't get your
back in a hunch

For Woven Dreams - Prompt 23

By The Sea

alone at the beach
like a wave
mind turns in on itself

For Haiku Heights - Prompt 267

Sabbe Satta

gray-centered puffs
robin-egg sky
may all beings
be happy

Eat Up

unguarded bag of chips
dinner bell
for gull nation

Buddies

toddler reaches out
from his stroller
low five

Companions

walking in the woods
gnats, mosquitoes, bees
are my entourage

4-15

pressure cooker bombs
flesh rending shrapnel
Christ was not the last
to die for our sins

Printed in Four and Twenty - July, 2013

Impermanence

snowflake world
never the same
twice

Printed in Issa's Untidy Hut - July, 2013

Deja-vu

my long-dead uncle
alive again at the beach
right down to the nose

For Haiku Heights - Prompt #267

Truth-teller

no need for robes
the cricket chirps
the Dharma

The Gift

red-streaked
clouds at dawn
insomniac's reward

Butterfly

butterfly
in the living room
outside in

Hot Dog Horror

startled 5-year-old
the hot dog plucked from her hands
seaside scavenger

Gull Speak

when flight
is not an option
glide
the gulls say