My new work from the latest issue of 

World Haiku Review, March 2003

GUN VIOLENCE, a haiku sequence

seeming epidemic

random deadly shootings

in the land of the free

color them red

innocent victims

of gun violence

staring puzzled

at a deep black abyss

kins of murder victims

gun control debate

who's to blame: the gun

or the trigger man

chilly morning
she grabs me back to bed
a little longer

first day of spring
her love and orchids
are blooming

resplendent 

in her wedding gown

my daughter celebrates

her 31st anniversary

with the same man

icy sidewalk -
she refused his brown hand
then she falls down again