It makes sense to act
like nothing has happened when
nothing has happened.

See them walk so tall—
They walk with ease and purpose,
Walking through the world.

Infinite breadth is
known and encompassed by a
firm rule and fine point.

The devil is in,
The road to hell is paved, but
a stitch in time saves.

Long up top, clipped sides,
I had that haircut. It was
silly on me too.

Words on wooden tongues
promise to reveal fresh dirt
and buried secrets.

Long rows wind around.
Oh, how long lines go so slow—
so so so so slow.

Don't mix apples and
If you can't do the time, don't
When the cat's away.

Nothing to be done.
It is what it is is all.
Nothing to be done.

Why buy the cow, when
Money is the root of all
A penny saved is?

I have seen the rain
come down on a sunny day.
It is beautiful.

Are there so many
songs about rainbows and what's
on the other side?

Don't count your chickens.
You can't make an omelet
Until the cows come.

The note "personal
communication" transforms
it to something else.

There's more than one way
Variety is the spice
Good fences make good.

Love is the answer
to a question difficult
to formulate well.

We laugh at fools and
The world laughs at fools like us
All laughing like fools.

The ice relaxes,
lets its hair flow down melting
with warm wet kisses.

There is some sadness
in every sentence that a
joke does not contain.

Gas Affordabil-
-ity Service Program is
GAP, not GASP. Ha ha.

A truth meets a truth.
They pass time, converse, and part
convinced they are right.

A girl plays music
on chalk piano keys her
small shoes dance music.

You'll go out again.
The world is full of men of
military age.

The one-eyed snowman
Wants a stocking full of coal.
It's Bad Frosty time.

"We dress like students,
We dress like housewives, or in
A suit and a tie."

The chilaquiles
at The Lowry are tasty.
I suggest poached eggs.

"Obvious" has no
place in a well-written proof.
You're doing it wrong.

Our door we opened
For Elijah at Pesach—
Now we have no cat.

The mohel carries
a wallet that becomes a
suitcase—just rub it.

The ways in n lines
to fit k obscurities:
Pound-Stirling number.

Irony is nice
but distracting: Tantalus'
hell is the hunger.

Don't make a mountain
when life gives you lemons, make
an apple a day.

still again always
always only returning
melodies echos

All's fair in love, and
what's good for the goose is good;
laughter is the best.

The hypotenuse
squared is the sum of the squares
of the other sides.

Absence makes the heart
give a man a fish you can't
sew a silk purse from.

Events fossilize
into place—stopping here—here
is where it happened.

Nebraska in Summer or Summer in Nebraska: You be the Judge!

Hot Badminton Hot
Hot Hot Thunderstorms Hot Hot
Hot Barbecue Hot

On a City Hill

Amid the dead leaves,
A tear of foil, an ember,
Reflects still first fire.

For some damn reason
measurability is
a pain in the ass.

For Jimmy Smith

I got my mojo
working. Gon' try it on you.
Aw, Roogalater!

April showers: bring
flowers, sure, so long as you
also bring me warmth.

Movie and music:
mystic valley band extra-
-vaganza tonight.

By the Mississippi

From the bank, a branch,
a bag billowing white, wave
in gentle farewell.

Shopping for Wine

No Manischewitz.
I realize it's hard, but please
no Manischewitz.

Weird coincidence.
Recent New Yorker discussed
Cavafy at length.

Hmm, what New Yorker?
Poetry sale at the U:
read some Cavafy.

(Considered it, but
no. Neruda instead and
some Donald Justice.)

Oh, and by the way,
that haiku was written in
a C train T shirt.

Allergies

Spring comes and maybe
it's time to revive the blog.
Haiku! Bless you! Thanks!

Long time no Brian.
I read that New Yorker too.
I miss the E train.

Haiku for Cavafy

We grow infinite
tired and long and fear to rest
our souls forever.

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.