Sunday, June 27, 2010

POEMS: Haiku (Miscellaneous, unpublished)

                                                         I open my hand
                                            For the rain's soft nose to touch:
                                                       Getting acquainted.




                                                      They hand me a box:
                                             "Here is your mother."
                                                                        Coarse sand?
                                                       It's nothing like her!





                                                        In my idle hands
                                             Wet sand molds itself. That's it!
                                                      My dead father's face.




                                                                   MAY

                                                       Lavender blossoms
                                                        color the sidewalk.
                                                      It's raining jacaranda.




                                                            URBAN WALKER

                                                        Elbowing back smog,
                                                    filtering exhaust, she strides
                                                         the concrete treadmill.



                                                                       
                                                              LIQUIDAMBAR
  
                                                         Green fingers apart,
                                                        leafy hands gesticulate
                                                      from narrow stem wrists.




                                                            LIVING WATER

                                                           Being salt, if I
                                                    do my job right, you will
                                                 long for the Thirst-Quencher.

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