Friday haiku 99

September moon
Sailing above cicadas
Dying for love

Friday haiku 98

Thunder ushers in
The last long weekend
Of barbecue season

Friday haiku 97

A break in the heat
Dozing in the armchair
Jackhammer dreams

Crying like the light within me

I’ve got cheap suitcase syndrome
I can’t sleep but on the roadside
under troves of leaves
enwrapped in wings of night

worms beneath my head
an apple in my eye
dust around my pants cuffs
Walt Whitman under my boot soles

did I mention suitcases?
I bank my will in them
tie strings around my navel
to remember, or forget,

whichever suits my case
like a blind wizard-boy
don’t look now here comes
another arrow

Friday haiku 96

Mushrooms come and go
With or without the seasons
Like cribs and gravestones