Poem 1774

Early breakfast
an already summer dawn
baking the kitchen.

Poem 1471

Twilight chill
the owl sees the mouse see
the owl see.

Poem 1534

Winter morning
leaving the train station
a friend’s last wave.

Poem 1357

I saw her
the lime bikini blonde
writing love in the sand.

Poem 1952

While I passed their rooms
the school of Geisha
serving perfect teas.

Poem 1840

Alone
as she likes it
bed and her romance novel.

Poem 1437

Little reaching fingers
the bread’s butter-side up
so close on the floor.

Poem 1998

Solitary
grey moths circling
the wet streetlights.

Poem 1983

Streetlights
still wind ruffled
the quick red fox.

Poem 1759

Black pond
a frog leaps into
the litter of stars (Basho’).