senryu collection

 cold pizza

watching Robert Durst story

with interest

potted roses

dull in color 

more gambling debts

soaring birds the smooth edge of a tear

bored these days

then again...

still bored 

unbalanced barstool 

having a 

Viking's ale

with pizza breath 

taking another walk

'round hotel

bone China no one ever comes to visit

in world of computers humans become obsolete

blank pages in diary boredom came to visit 

frustrating day—not one friendly face on bus 

toiled sunup sundown dad's dissatisfaction children's inheritance

maman 

doesn't come to my dreams...

damp shadows 

simple things matter—peeling an orange in silence

buying child new raincoat—he want's another kid 

reminding self, 'buy new umbrella' afternoon rainpour 

near water-fountain for lunch, just people-watching

before exercising blood sugar down drinking Gatorade

though intelligent and degreed, can't get pass skin color 

women's rights decimated—politician's still find ways

one's oppressing others, always find ways for themselves 

is any politician honest, time to run Night Audit

"drag queens kill" though stats show its "guns" 

another school shooting, still drag queens are blamed

kids keep dying, Republican's aren't very Pro-Life

America—giant salad bowl, most want everyone same

'diversity' no longer celebrated, 'difference' feared and demonized 

child's spinning top: when do we become monsters

'distinctive' way he says "Black," i drink my coffee

to relax—folding paper things a rainpour arrives 

neglected—all day long, kid with snotty nose

newborn shifts in her arms, time stands still 

poison hemlock—O, to be Black in America

no one alive, that remembers Hiroshima, cracked eggs 

Kenko's "Essays In Idleness," i stretch before work 

"you're quite strange..." notating that in senryu diary

already he wishes for New Year, Summer still here

newborn's crying into autumn sky red dragonflies 

paper figures on shelf: ready for bed right now 

across street, tombstone's whiteness, he returns drunk 

sculpturing shrubs, daddy's intense concentration—this heat

mémær canning figs, syrups' a rich amber color 

monkey's have raincoats, Basho says, getting more coffee