"Thoughts a Second Before the Terrible Triad Elbow" (embedded haibun), Frogpond, issue 45:1 (2022)
"Nowhere to Be Found", Failed Haiku (ed: Roberta Beary; 2022)
Squirrel A Way
I search for hidden deer and a place to sit next to audible water. Try to find my mind again. Maybe a new bird. I sort the major from the minor, the shakers from the shaken. Dodge the falling acorns. But what really rules my moment is this disintegrating leaf. The autumn maple feeds its future vernal self with a little left over to share with the other trees. It surrenders everything for a hope in the unknown. Without it, the rest falls apart.
"Breaking Up With the Blues", #FemkuMag, issue 31 (2021) "Pulled into Gravity", Drifting Sands Haibun, issue 12, Jo Balistreri, editor, (November 2021)
I didn’t recognize you, at first, in your many disguises. A home. A mother. A story I will never understand. When I removed your mask, there was nothing behind it. Still, you stand in the doorway. You want to be the space between my molecules. You want to pull my fabric into threads. You are nothing, made new. You took the walls but left the scaffolding, so I hang my pictures in your air. My little rebellion against what is not there.
Mariana Trench an old darkness becomes a depth
United Haiku and Tanka Society Samurai Haibun Contest, HM (2020)