Absent now, but still
In light, in dark, I see you
Adjusting my eyes

Dull leaden nonclouds—
A day when all the sun does
Is keep me alive.

nervous nervous nerv-
ous hearing continued judge
ok padlock off.

quiet tree branches
no squirrel or bird, the clock's
cuckoo gives one cry

In this place I've
always lived, today I see
light on its petals

Look! The shadows choose
this night, the moon is asking
for another dance...

So I'll pencil you
into my penciled-in house.
I will, so I will.

On Toast

butter egg peanut
butter honey dill* jelly
cheese syrup bacon

*Nod to SKP--try it, w/ butter--it's savory toast! good w/ egg too I bet.

watch out friends: Anders
brings us talent dirty but
considerable.

haiku per dag blog
has taken flight beyond blog.
come home to roost now!

perhaps she's become
quieted in the winter's
gravel and snow

Missing Haiku

Whatever happened
To the female cardinal?
Flown away? Burned up?

DC Nostalgia

Branches sway between
Floating petals' currents, tides
Remembering life.

anders

if i had fifty
cents for every girl that talked
about my sperm.

holy shit I nev-
-er expected I would see
Keith Haring's penis.

"If you had no arms
you would probably use your
nose for lots of stuff."

Blah

too hot, too humid
to form complete sentences
or count syllables

arms tire from weight.
face salts over. A dog licks
it, licks it, licks it.

today i busted
a tire with a big ol'
bolt. good people helped.

caravansarai

an inn with a court
in eastern countries where car-
-avans rest at night.

Oh, that reminds me--
Over at Tim Trudell's place,
I have some Red Stripe.

I forgot that the
only beer i have in the
house is Old Style.

This branching grass
breaks apart easily
Nap under a tree

Good Salted

Breakfast radishes
Plucked from Thursday's soil--thank you,
Lief and Paloma.

What's that turquoise thing?
small scrunched cone, ringed with dirt? no!
It's not an ear plug!

I ask: how many
pillows do you want? He says:
One. No, wait, two please.

bank tube cylinder
hydraulics? caterwaulics?
make a deposit!

Every 4th reminds
me of Annapolis' streets
empty of traffic.

Friends help with the big
big clean. Good thing I've such good
good friends. Thanks you guys.

In summer, we speak
Of mosquitoes, and the things
They remind us of.

Fraudulent Cutlery

I'm wondering who
(with fraudulent cutlery)
Anne's new roommate is?

All of a sudden,
a roommate, with his paper
plates and plastic forks.

Although...

Minneapolis
Is pentasyllabic, like
Philadelphia.

Minneapolis,
Why must it be so far from
Philadelphia?

And Call It Research

Go to Caffetto,
Pencil symbols, listen to
Songs of Love and Hate

One man's theorem is
Another man's theorem too.
Math is nice that way.

Don't get the tempeh
At Common Roots on Lyndale.
Seriously, don't.

driving home

"Panty" ought to be
used only to describe one
who pants a whole bunch.

"Mustangular": a
mustang, except two sides are
longer than a square's.

At the sink, dripping
Ripe through lips and fingers, this
Becomes thoughts of plums.

SF conference

Arrived in S-F
NLADA meeting
going to blog it

At night, the fan spins;
Lulu looks out the open
window; sheets tangle.

Consumer law is
the bomb. It's so hot right now.
File bankruptcy!

Took seventeen years,
But I'm finally reading
Rules for Radicals.

Shadows dart across
Then scurry up the brickwork
In sunlit alleys.

driving soundtrack

you think you're gonna
take her away with your mon-
ey and your cocaine.

thoughts on topics

well, exorcism,
who do you think you are, hmm?
the devil or germs?

...


i heart those rouge priests,
the red powdery men, clothed
in compact vestments.

productivity:
lamp painted, bread baked, dishes
washed and salad et.

A blue explosion
in my oven tells me that
"cold" is relative.

email

Sarah/Harris lil-
ies, interspersed with Anne lil-
ies, some showing green.

and wondering about the bird

Tornadoes in O
maha last night. I lay
awake, thought haiku.

Tornadoes in O
maha last night. Baby bird
died. Dramatic bird.

Pie-ku

A friend from Montreal shares a Washington Post item. Apparently, they solicited haiku about pizza. Robert Pinsky judged the entries.

In honor of Montreal, the following haiku for another doughy staple:

O, pen, sesame,
Trace this most perfect circle:
Montreal bagel.

three a.m. visit
begins with rain, and a loss,
of course food, then bed.

friends around the round
table: clichéd, maybe, but
it makes me happy.

Mom and Dad popped all
the dandelion heads off.
Don't let's go to seed.

an old man drove his
riding mower up north to
visit his brother.

Dying neighbor's house:
Sitting out in his front yard
A lonely trash can

When my dog is sick
and I spill lots of perfume
my house smells funny.

dog walks walks runs runs
sleeps sleeps sleeps eats sleeps sleeps sleeps
sleeps sleeps sleeps sleeps sleeps.

claim of exemptions
hearing: so short and sweet it
could be a haiku.

Hearsay: out of court
statement to prove truth of the
matter asserted.

About the old saw
"The silence is deafening",
What do the deaf think?

Dear Mom, here's flowers
Powers, a box of chakras...
Hippie Mother's Day.

Intimidating Towing

Reserved parking space:
Violators are towed by
Wrecker Services.

Editing My Proposal

Ploughing through old lines
Scratches through weeds, breaks through clods,
grows a new red field.

Tomorrow's lecture
Is cancelled because last week
I ran out of text.

McSheane

The immortal words
Of k2uacm:
Weird doesn't mean bad.

Haikus are easy
(except my last one which was
made incorrectly).

O Euterpe, muse
of lyric poetry, dig'st
thou our poesy?

No agua

No water from faucet comes,
no chance to clean me.
Makes getting ready, easy.

Shizzle. Got new pants,
antitheft security
device is still on.

Internet's advice:
use drill, fire, rubber band.
Too bad I'm chicken.

Silly Leon Kass,
Is all your mumbo jumbo
But mumbo jumbo?

NPR

An wanted to write,
but instead she designs bombs.
Pays the bills, I guess.

Torts exam -- where else
for pee in the fact pattern?
Here it meets brain stems.

grumpy

DMV impedes
lawful car registration.
Why am I surprised?

Over Lake Michigan

Black pebble slips from
My jeans, 10, 000 ft up—
Caught on the deep swell.

feet and meter

LM's a spondee;
PMcS, iambic;
JH, dactylic.

uptight friends with pets!
one wonders how they'd deal with
dog diarrhea.

peach plum pear

oh, obedience!
why do you play so damn hard
to get? sit, stay, speak.

law day two oh eight
nice speech judge laurie smith-camp...
no guantanamo?

Showing his small teeth
My nephew tells me to put
Salad on my toes

Poofy Galore

A wash and blow dry
will re-fluffify her fur,
will afro-ize it.

Thoughts

I wonder aloud,
can people hear me thinking?
Someone responds, Yes.

A cheerleader once
said he had beautiful feet
and ruined his life.

Lulu eats my specs,
which makes me very angry.
@^@$%

civil procedure
the bane of my existence
erie can blow me.

finals approaching
maybe a hernia too?
doctor will say "rest."

but no rest for me
unless the doc says "surgery"
and then drugs will help.

I Hadn't Noticed

Pennies in a stream,
Falling leaves, a sycamore,
Moonlight in Vermont.

Friday Night Lights

dusk is approaching
dachshunds wake up from their naps
romance is abound

By S.W.T & H.D.L

emails in the office

compare manuscript
to an aborted fetus?
sure, go right ahead

I don't think it's a match

ZS wants to be
my roommate but really he
just wants to play drums.

He also wouldn't
mind "big ol' titties" and a
gift cert. to Chili's.

ZS, some advice:
next time, don't send out a link
to your myspace page.

re: re: tornado siren

She spins me right 'round,
But, as Odysseus says,
There's no place like home.

re: tornado siren

What?! Is her song not
so beautiful that you would
die to follow her?

Tornado siren:
Yet another good reason
I miss the East Coast.

comments

I have disabled the comments b/c they are too easy to miss. Please leave responses in a regular post, with a title of "re: [insert identifying matter]". Here are all the comment haiku:

Brian said, re: administrators:

The same heavy door
Keeps the administrators
From the other side.

Brian said, re: the sun is here now:

Sunlight casts shadows,
Spring blooms drink from icy pools;
Seek balance, diapers.

Brian said, re: That rainy dark place:

Not just Omaha,
Today Minneapolis
Is gray and awful.

Anonymous said, re: Greg in my office:

You don't really "win."
It is a big marketing
scam. But still, enjoy!

Dave said, re: daily I think yes,:

the end of the ramp
park on the top of the place
unexpected rain

abmatic said re: daily I think yes,:

you should see this blog
adhaiku dot com is it
you two should be friends
(http://adhaiku.com/)

use whips!

take your kids to work
and put them to work: wa-pshhh!
scurrying munchkins.

dinner with mom's bro
and sis after proposing
dissertation, whhhew!

re: Croquet

Running through spring grass
I hastily collect them:
Four lost tennis balls

COMPUCESSORY

People hand it off,
the can of cold, compressed air,
almost like a joint.

Except it breathes out,
not in; you can hear it sssssssssssssssss,
air dusting keyboards.

Croquet

Last of the wine sack,
Leaks red onto faces, courts...
Lost in the new grass.

Administrators
are kept on the other side
of a heavy door.

for dinner tonight:
capers, prunes, olives, chicken
with wild rice and kale

vet receipt

W/D food,
metronidazole, anti-
-diarrheal pills.

Well, for heavens sake:
I will be thirty years old
in just ten short days.

goo oo ooooo ooo oo
ewww peeuuw haaaaaaak
blaaa ehhhhhrrr

Yesterday I was
compared to a pineapple,
contrasted with steak.

Sunday Morning

Coffee, oranges:
Hardly locusts and honey,
Not so bad either.

The sun is here now
but Lulu's gut still rebels.
Things don't coincide.

An estimator,
If not inadmissible,
Is admissible.

Minneapolis:
Yes, today it is raining.
At least it's not snow!

cell phone: through the wash.
drowning in soapy maelstrom,
telephonic death.

That rainy dark place,
You know, "where the sun don't shine"?
It is Omaha.

Who I will vote for
This upcoming November
In haiku format:

Barack Obama,
Maybe Hillary Clinton,
But not John McCain.

just back from sailing
prepared strange feast for dinner
next: shower and bed

Reading the paper
Reminds me of my father
Reading the paper.

II

Still sunny but cold
will summer ever arrive?
Ben and Jerry's time!

Suing the bad guys
While wearing my old blue jeans
Makes me full of joy

Greg in my office
won a business card contest:
free burritos all!

Today I

Shoot guns inside range
click snow photos with holga
no more play time, work

the meeting was long,
interminable. foggy,
return to my desk

so

The first post had to be a haiku. Hopefully there won't be many of these nonhaiku posts. Anyhow, please contribute haiku as often as you want. If by some oversight you haven't been invited, please email me or leave a comment saying you want an invite.

cheers,
acmcs

first

daily i think, yes,
parking ramp might never stop.
oh never mind: out.