Her absence

the silent sound

of her absence

fills our room

only the echoes

of yesterday remain

from my book, 

Haiku and Tanka Harvest

Last embrace

(For my brother Gabriel who passed away two weeks ago. Rest in peace Bro!)

I know now

why our embrace

was so tight

your last farewell

to fleeting life

In my book,

Haiku and Tanka Harvest @ Dec. 2011

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Football fever

football fever
time to separate the boys
from the men

Runaway Son

a torn kite flails 

in the telephone line 

their runaway son 

Published in 

World Haiku Review, April 2014

Obituary

humming their love song

she scans the obituary

once more

Lotus Festival

Lotus Festival

  

Not many summers ago, the annual observance of the Lotus Festival in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California was a mild disappointment, to say the least. The reason? No lotus flowers in the lake for unknown reasons. 

Considering that the reliability of their profuse blooming every summer is as certain as the traffic gridlock in the vicinity, visitors from within and outside the area were vocally disgruntled. Locals were at a loss on how to explain to their out-of-town friends the absence of the floral attractions.

                no lotus flowers
                in the murky water
                global warming here?

Published in World Haiku Review, August 2014

Writer's travail