Fingers and Toes
O the language of fear! Medicine, borders, finances. Differences, conspiracies, laws. barefoot through cherry blossoms touching each trunk in the old city park . [ 1064 ]
Tag Archive for ‘Haiku’
Vincent
A trip to Safeway to pick up prescriptions for my mother: sunflowers, in six-dollar bunches by the door; rotten eggplant neatly stacked in the produce aisle; hard tomatoes and wilted bell peppers at prices few people can afford. And I think, There used to be a field here. Oh, what I could do with a field just a quarter of the size of the Safeway parking lot. The dreams I […]
Looking Up
from crooked streets these bare feet greet a starling river . [ 1062 ]
Canvas 872 — Last Year’s Apples
last year’s apples — this year’s prices — like the other thoughts I set aside March 29, 2021 Canvas 872 April 6, 2017 . [ 1061 ]
Walking Stick
sparrows on the path we can only go this way quietly singing . [ 1060 ]
Easter Haiku
after the rain after the moon a friend calls about the rain and moon Poems, Slightly Used, April 4, 2010 . [ 1059 ]
Barefoot Journal
Chilly dawn. Bare feet. Wet concrete. Writing mossy sidewalk with my toes. March 26, 2021 . [ 1058 ]
Whiter This Year
whiter this year cherry blossoms in my beard Recently Banned Literature, March 22, 2017 . [ 1053 ]
Cold Water Morning
Cold water morning — no bluff — not even death. March 17, 2021 . [ 1051 ]
Snow on the Lilac
Snow on the lilac — my mother has already forgotten that day. Poems, Slightly Used, April 27, 2008 . [ 1050 ]
William Michaelian 