spring sunshine                                                                                         
    the toothless smile                                                                                   
    of a homeless girl   

World Haiku Review
Vol 7, Issue 1, March 2009

Gobal warming

First, the disappearing lotus flowers at the annual Lotus Festival in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Then, the swallows not returning to Capistrano. At least, there still are the ubiquitous wildflowers to watch and enjoy viewing alongside highways and freeways of California this time of the year.

lotus flowers disappearing
and the swallows not returning
is global warming here?

Aloness

dining alone
the piped-in music plays
our love song

still in bloom
California flowers dance
to winter song

Publication News

I just received the good news that my poem about the new US President Obama, YES WE CAN, was published in the latest issue of Sketchbook: A Journal of Eastern & Western Short Forms, Vol. 4, Issue 1, February 28, 2009.

Job hunting

hundreds line
the snowy ground
to the job fair