Three Haikoan (#s 13, 14, 15) published in Heliosparrow!

 

a dream of two birds

tied together

flying toward some naked trees

 

for years i expect

his dying breath

to wash ashore beside me

 

full of the wars

i am wearing

a shirt soaked with life

 

spirals of seeds

top tall dried weeds—

my path through the field completes a circle

 

moon so fragile

blue sky

shone through

 

warm bed

old soul

blanket of snow

 

from cloud to limb to ground

junco and snow

so i go

 

to be a little light

i see

mercury on the horizon

seeing the limbs that fell last night—

angry winds

wild chimes

 

walking with the green sea

walking with a gift

tumbled from it

 

wind moans

feet cold

clouds running ahead of the sun

my hair is thin

snow and wind

the oriole nest abandoned

 

 

lifted a potato from the earth

tuberculosis

asleep in my chest

 

lighting a candle

closing my eyes

sunrise