A rain filled tent, a story of elephants and Topsy, killed at Coney Island A father and a small boy using a beanbag chair as a sponge and telling stories in that storm.1903 stories here, and a great grandmother born … Continue reading Elephant of 1903
were you the jagged moment when everything took reality home ergot ran into our eyes ruthless, your cornfields wept where eerie rains took quiet ways to her weather took its toll, revealed you echoing here yet inundated, nothing was okay Continue reading Jagged Raindrops
Torrential cloudfall, Rivers swelling, no repute, Mankind’s failures fall, Homes and streets submerged in deep, Leave confusion here in sleep Continue reading Flood Tanka
Summer, maybe spring. It’s not important except that the warmth of the day is emblematic of something that has changed in me. I’m fourteen years old and the temperature can’t be more than 28ºC; but numbers don’t measure true significance. … Continue reading Leading to a River
The sunset is a quavering note that suffuses my visual sense, like slipping into a warm ocean with a beautiful girl on a lonely shore. The fog that hangs in the cold atmosphere renders the hateful rigidity of the manmade … Continue reading A Mouthful of Honey
Mirrors fall from clouds reflect the dead weeping sky reveal the light’s source Continue reading Puddle Haiku
Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…“It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine… Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden Continue reading The Spring Coming
Centimetre shores lapping at broken footpaths Scale is everything Continue reading Puddle Lake Haiku
The earth came to life and took my warmth drank my blood Chased me down the alleyways of trees The absent sky defiled my skin Ground my bones to powder Baked no bread Continue reading Storm Walk
The grass turned gray and the horizon sour and weary as you idly sit tousling the dandelions waiting for the rain to find the land What dreadful happening can deter the Sun from it’s rightful path? This cold wind does … Continue reading The Abhorrence of Emptiness
Dodola gives the sky a shake,And breathes until the clouds must make.The only other sound’s the break,Of distant waves and birds awake. Continue reading Rainbringer
Grasp the spaces between the raindrops and give up the hope of staying dry a torrent shakes the ground, and everything is a mile in the drizzle here comes brief light in the deafening sky speak none of this to … Continue reading King of Forest and Stone
It rained so much they didn’t run, they did not feel the sting They read the news and just felt numb and barely said a thing They bowed their heads and walked in threes within the curtain gray they cared … Continue reading Consume My Heart
And here came the flood Cleansed the stone for the new seed Stained my eyes to green Continue reading Algae in the Garden Haiku
Blaze of Obscurity 