sparrows
from the fifth floor railing
echo
this exam room
empty of students

winter eve—
wind and snow
a slow tango

his goodbye—
the sun too
lost in fog

Mayfly, Issue 62, winter 2017,

the fluffy cat who never talks freely sheds his fur everywhere

fire this time the devil denies

the new graveyard
slowly the cleared field
regains its stones

Modern Haiku, Autumn 1979, Vol. X, No. 3, p. 7

the temple bell
counting my heartbeats
in the ripples of lake

winter moon
stays closer to the rooftop
homeless cat

student garden
the orderly rows
of seedlings

tall grass
dew stains
on my knees

drop a stone a drop of wine in your still waters

carrying nowhere
out of moonlight
blue damselfly

broken bridge:
something sharp
something tender

touching
the other door
blue asters

morning purr
our fig leaves
dusted with snow



second childhood
a dusty box
of seashells



retirement party
mountains mirrored
in each lens



kissing the curve
of your neck
fireflies

night train
lit from within
a bobwhite calls

 

Indian summer
a pile of leaves becomes
a pile of little boys

old pine
leafless
the distant mountain

farewell
kiss
the salt of her lips

endless
night
the stars have teeth

Slipping off the branch—
the snow finally reaches
its destination

Honorable Mention - 72th Basho Memorial 2018 English Haiku Contest 

Tiny, black-and-white shells
in a wooden bowl
like a heap of bees –
       feeling grateful your
       dead words sting less

recalling
in mid-winter, summer blues:
a blue-dusted cricket,
a blue-lit spruce, a blue tick
on the tip of a rabbit's ear
 

listening
to my grandmother's story
carried
generations back
on the train of a mere voice

suspicious for oh fuck elevator memory ride

hand me his gloved hands radiation pill sacrament

fog future right in front of us all we get

another dry year
tap water
spills through my hands

Modern Haiku, Issue 46:1, Feb., 2015

endless sky
telephone wires
make it bearable

Bones, Issue 6, March 15, 2015

walking into the wind
nothing left
to see through

sunlight on leaves -
whatever my worries
the trees don't care