the silent sound
of her absence
fills their room
only the echoes
of yesterday remain

Tagalog version

napuno ang kanilang silid
ng tahimik na ugong
nang kanyang pagkawala
gunita ng kahapon
siya lang naiwan

Published in my book,
Haiku and Tanka Harvest
© December 2001

end of summer
our daughter's vacation
gets shorter each year

The Heron's Nest
Vol. XIII, No. 1, March 2011

football fever

she hugs his pillow 

for company

their bed grows colder

each passing game

Ribbons, Vol. 2, No. 2

Summer 2006

Good news. My article, Xenophobia, an excerpt from my 3rd book, ABC to Enlightenment, 

https://www.createspace.com/3900289

was just published in the Romanian magazine, Contemporary Horizons, July/August 2012 issue in both its original English version with Romanian translation. Many thanks to editor Daniel Dragomirescu for always including my works in the magazine.