Educational Sights
Haibun Brightly decorated bulletin boards show off fraction worksheets and reading logs. A table outside Ms. Flynn’s classroom has a ball suspended in water or a magnet-with magnets around. Frankie, Stephan, James and another...
Tagged: new poetry
Res Waterfall
Haibun The waterfall foams as it rushes over weathered black rocks. Its steady roar is a constant, alluring song whose lyrics I almost make out. Almost. sunlight gleaming from running water just sitting...
The Golden Trapeze
Poem Movement humming Cicadas in the trees Peace swinging in the willows Velvet rays beam A golden trapeze Singing across meadows Reflections bending Illusory shadows Hoping for more to see Waiting for novelty Expecting...
Death of a Karaganda January
Poem The world swims into focus And I pick the burden back up, Smile and wave. Through my special glasses, some days, Is the only way I can bear it. Drudgery has eaten...
Soraya’s Annual
Haibun I receive a call from AnaMaria. A family awaits me outside 282. I head to the office suite to meet them. Only they aren’t the family I’m expecting. I swallow, open the door...
Digging to China
Poem Well I was digging my way to China, shovel and all, hands dirty with the past, with the miles of mud dug, displaced, disposed. I was digging my way to China when my...
The Unknown
Poem Out in the snow where the sound of the wind boils my blood I saw people standing still They were calm, almost sleepy with legs attached to the ground like the trees in...
Transatlanticism
Poem Sometimes its as if the Earth opened up and left a crevasse so deep and wide we hardly knew it started until the waters dripped in over and over and I leapt...
