bikers at starbucks
passing around pictures
of their grandchildren
2064
Month: July 2018
2063
charred brittle branches
scattered on the forest floor
glory once struck here
2062r
rain is a no-show
crickets and moon perform
every night— for now
2061
a lake we swam in
long before the drought
sexuality
2060r
watching kids at play
sakura trees bend and sigh
ahhh, the transience
2059
unhappy campers
cats rattling empty bowls
dinner still not served
2058
dry wind in dry grass
sweeping out cigarette butts
dead leaves and bark
2057r
once over the hearth
photographs of her children
—now only of cats
2056
carpenters next door
hammering away— slower
than that woodpecker
2055
a garden buddha
sits in mandara flowers
preaches the dharma
2054
midsummer moonrise
a hummingbird’s silhouette
flying across
2053
deer bowing to me
cats rub my belly for luck
I must be buddha
2052p
2051p
2050
a plum far above
outshines jupiter
in the july sky
2049
at around midnight
the old rocker on the porch
rocking by itself
2048
living quietly
the morning world overflows
hundreds of songbirds
2047
no one at the park
only memories and wind
swinging back and forth
2046
stars— the lanterns
of pavilion boats sailing
the river of heaven
2045
bright gems on the tide
the milky way spilling
into a dark sea
