Poem Category: Miscellaneous

Dawn opens
the faintest sweep of willows
over the river mud.

In the jade Buddha
almost a heartbeat
almost heard.

Along the coast road
sunrise sweeps
from wave to wave.

Late train home
street lights disappear
into autumn fog.

Summer afternoon
just before iced teas
the cicadas start.

Rain drizzles
clouds parting at times
for the moon’s aura.

Ape bellows
his mate steps from the bushes
suckling their babe.

Blue summer lake
too gentle to stir its surface
the breeze moves on.

The chairman’s pen poised
over the merger contract
ice melts in our drinks.

Bubble bathed
the birthday doll taken
into her bed.