bone dust
after cremation
the winter sky

This is not a haiku! Tuesday evening, I was just settling down to watch NCIS, when I heard two loud booms. I really thought it was feral cats playing on the roof, as they often do. Nope, it was a meteor blowing in over my part of the world. WOW! Here come the Geminids!


http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/11/us/arizona-meteor-explosion/



http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/12/geminid-meteor-shower-ramps-up-friday-night-bright-moon-will-put-best-viewing-at-predawn/

Mekong river--
the swaying of our hammocks

turquoise puddles filling dinosaur tracks

overturned boat
a pink plastic barette
tacks alongside

circumcision day
everyone leaves the peppers
on the relish tray

the plodding of rain
in my empty guest room

behind the cafe
the sound of children--
or crows

green zinnia
a bumblebee lands
on my purple shirt

Spring allergies--
a speck
in Buddha's eye

our frozen breath
the ox and I
share an apple

longest night--
the old cat
farts in his sleep

new diary
the whiteness inside
the tangerine peel

jury duty
nothing to read
but the constitution

summer rain--
yesterday's rice
molds before morning

writer's block
a tortoise eating cactus buds

Old River Jade
the day before
her cateract surgery

Organic Brain Syndrome--
white petals
falling away

camphor tree
in full bloom--
the sting of your good bye

the heaviness
of winter rain
under streetlights