morning commute
train shadow
shooting through the trees    
                              (Frogpond, 27:2)

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cockfight
sand sprays
my face
                               (Frogpond, 27:3)

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cigarette break--
two men with aprons watching
the hot air balloons
                               (Modern Haiku, 34:1)

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thunderstorm watch--
a leaf skips over the slipstream
over the interstate

                               (Modern Haiku, 35:1)

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thunderstorm watch--
a leaf skips over the slipstream
over the interstate

                                (Modern Haiku, 35:1)

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voice mail:
something about the monthly report
and birds
                                (Modern Haiku, 35:3)

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election day
a patch of frozen spittle
on the ground
                                 (Modern Haiku, 36:3)

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late for work
sun speeding
through the trees
                                 (Sixth Annual Suruga Baika 
                                  Literary Festival Selected Works, 
                                  Honorable Mention)

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cirrus wisps--steeping
in the sunrise--the warm whine
of one mosquito
                                  (Potpourri, A Quarterly Magazine 
                                   of the Literary Arts, 14:2)

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unemployed--
a pillar of mayflies
swirling in the sun
                                  (The Heron's Nest, 5:10)

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butchering a rabbit
cold rain
on my hat
                                  (The Heron's Nest, 6:2)

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tipping back
my whiskey glass:
the moon

                                  (The Heron's Nest, 6:7)

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graveside
the seeing-eye dog
looks upwind
                                  (The Heron's Nest, 6:11)