Haiku: A Gift From the Bride
Preying vultures laugh, a shotgun wedding party, empty gown—remains.
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Haiku: Love Carved on to the Soul
Outstretched feeble hands, the mournful tree—sighed, my evergreen love.
Read MoreHaibun: A Walk to the Precipice
My steps grow shorter. A cloak of snow longer than my imagination can muster weighs upon weary bones.
Read MoreHaiku: A Dragon’s Fall
A weeping hydra its seed sowed; the revealing— snapdragons’ repose
Read MoreDead Sea Stroll
Into the void; where I am lead
Stands the sempiternal stone
Haiku: Blood Snow
Unsteady snow prints blood rushed away in white-out a wounded wolf’s wail
Read MoreHaiku: In Bloom
Your forget-me-nots
a crowning bloom amidst stone
I still remember
A Gravedigger’s Woe
To be one’s own gravedigger a tragedy never able to finish the job
Read MoreFalling Through Glass
Cerebral flagellations
shatter in three
first—a heart
your cry
then me
Dinner Party of the Dead
Smoke in their eyesA silver glint in the wineShe’s serving scallops, salad, and strychnineBittersweet platter of petite deceits The dinner party’s dead “What’s your poison?” Said Death’s-headAtramentous wings shed a decaying scent“Jealousy.”The Reaper fed
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