Tagged: rebellion
Early Riser
Haibun A fawn takes two steps, lowers her head, then nibbles snow-covered grass. Lifting her head, she walks a few steps on, and then lowers for another bite. cirrus clouds morning twilight breakfast...
Strange Chinese Hat
Poem There is Pâquerette in sepia toned photographs like a ghost in strange Chinese hat and shimmering dark dress. She sits beside Pablo in the old cafe on boulevard Raspail. Their knees nudge...
A Fraught Encounter
Haibun An overcast sky, with whirls of gray splattered over blue like spilt paint on a completed canvas. Trees struggle to bud. I open the trunk of my weather-stained Legacy when Ilana calls....
Let’s Never Fight Again
Poem They say there’s an island of trash in the Pacific As big as a continent Bigger than Texas The combined efforts of years of plastics that banded together with fishing nets And...
Only In Spaghetti Westerns
Poem I saw tumbleweed for the first time and I thought: “It exists!” I am from one of those old European cities where there are no such things as tumbleweed. So I think...
Sinking Above Ground
Poem Standing at your grave surrounded by greying grass and spindly trees that reach for youth like the gnarled hands of a wise one, and wilting stones of those passed long before you...
Spirits Of The Dark
Poem Wearing the night the deer inhales the winter air steam looking at the grass the bird catches midnight snacks blood screaming the world the fox observes the moon white licking its coat...
First Experience
Haibun The family room lights are off. Daylight streams through windows flanking the chimney. She and I sit on a plaid-upholstered couch in an awkward silence. We broke up last week over an...
On Longing
Poem it was the solitary light that blinked in the window across the alley and reminded me that somewhere else you were waiting for me to light my own to send you the...
A Christmas Poem for the Lonely
Poem I know the sleigh bells are ringing and the Furs are more Noble than they are any other time of the year. Fire places usually dark and dusty are finally lit and...
