hermit crab ...
asleep at noon
on the street
he risks one foot bare
his right shoe a pillow

parrots
crimson green and blue
surging
dipping and weaving
my heart's shades and paths

her pair
of siamese cats
head to tail
within one basket ---
yin-and-yang sign

Rodney Williams has had haiku and tanka published in various journals internationally. Currently he is editing an Atlas Poetica special feature, Snipe Rising From A Marsh: Birds in Tanka