back in the lot
three broken RVs
& a pickup on blocks
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12 April 2022
Pittsfield MA
Category: Haiku
low-flying passenger jet
over Raymour & Flanagan
suburban excitement!
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10 April 2022
Latham NY
my new Crocs
are at my PO box
because I’m cool
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9 April 2022
Latham NY
I’ve been writing haiku from time to time for many years. For a bit more than a year now, I’ve been writing at least one haiku every day. A while ago, poet Dave Bonta turned me on to modern English haiku, which often breaks free of the 5-7-5 form so many of us learned growing up. I started reading journals of contemporary haiku and following current haiku poets on Instagram (though I’m off social media these days). It was through the latter path that I found the journal Trash Panda, and I had my first haiku published by them in their winter 2021-2022 issue a couple months back. I was reminded that I’d never mentioned that here on the blog when I found out last night that my second haiku will soon be published by another journal. I’ll tell you more about that when it happens. Right now, though, huge thanks to TP (!) for being the first journal to put one of my haiku in print.
Leave a Commenta cold spring shower
I could tip so easily into
“never, ever again”
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8 April 2022
Latham NY
a warm muffin with butter
Earl Grey with oat milk
the fish in his tank doesn’t care
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7 April 2022
Latham NY
headphones full of
New Mexican Stargazers!
::alternate life::
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6 April 2022
Latham NY
little punks
wearing spangly jackets
starlings
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5 April 2022
Latham NY
driving drums
Fender Rhodes
the sharp angles of melody
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1 April 2022
Latham NY
inspired by
“Morning Song”
by Matt Aronoff
Jimmy Stewart On The Tonight Show In 1989
Jimmy Stewart is talking to Johnny Carson about flying.
It’s 1989. Jimmy is 81. Johnny is 64.
Jimmy is wearing a dark suit with a reddish tie.
His hair looks a little blond, but it could be the lights.
Jimmy tells a story about getting to ride in a barnstorming plane.
As he tells it I’m reminded again of how much I love this man.
Jimmy talks in interviews just the way he does on the big screen.
Not that I’ve ever seen one of his movies on the big screen.
Jimmy has that accent you can’t quite pin down.
He’s from Indiana, Pennsylvania, but I think the accent is his own.
Jimmy gestures with his right hand.
I can’t even tell you why I love him, exactly.
Jimmy reminds me a bit of my grandfather.
And of course I realize he was acting in all those movies.
Jimmy just seems like a good man.
I used to drive by a sign for his museum on the way to a job I had.
Jimmy’s museum is in his home town.
I never went, but I always meant to.
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31 March 2021
Latham NY