Pry me away please
Lest I blind you right here. Now.
And solar winds muss
Tag Archives: Haiku
Refined Sugar
Sugar’s undone me
But if asked, with glee you’d smile
And tell of the deep
The toys that you stacked
The books that sustained young you
These bricks on your path
The gleam of the teeth
The taste, the smell of sky’s kiss
These truths on your skin
The steps to your calm
The mindful choice to bear pains
These questions matter
To Sea or Not
She’ll take you too far
Don’t entertain the mermaid
Breathing down your neck
Lest you find yourself
In the belly of the whale
That you’ve befriended
He’ll smile “Welcome home”
That mermaid will be there too
With tea and kelp cakes
Next comes surgery
To retro-fit you with gills
Now you’re one of them
You’ll live in the depths
Meet with the surf and shores, then
Teach sonar to schools
But you could also
Not entertain the mermaid
Breathing down your neck

Tale-Telling: A Haiku
Spitting Seeds: A Haiku
I Am Always
“A” Student
Black and White
Eyes emptied of sight.
Noses numb to life’s sweet scents.
Faculties failed, oh.
If this might be so,
I’ve a brush soaked verily
if you have desire.








