In wordless despair
M dissolves in tears clutching
me like a life vest.
Inexplicable sadness
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In wordless despair
M dissolves in tears clutching
me like a life vest.
Category Archives: loss
Laptop
An adult blankie.
To take one from its owner
will make grown men cry.
Why I need to sleep
When I stay up late
my thoughts move oddly like lab
mice stunted by drugs.
Back pain
Hunched and hobbling I
move as if years older, a
taste of what’s to come.
Why I’ve been absent
Haiku, like bonsai,
needs care and pruning. A mind
unfocused kills both.
Why
on another blog
gross comment deposited
like defecation
In memoriam: Mrs. G
Now that the snow is
gone, her neglected garden
pokes up stalks of loss.
Silda Wall Spitzer
Wan, pale, red-eyed, she’s
the poster wife of Wynette’s
song, “Stand By Your Man.”
Saving grace
While I throw pennies
into a coin jar, Bear Stearns
gets a big bailout.
Eliot Spitzer
When a righteous man
is caught with his pants down, it’s
likely he’ll get spanked.
a haiku a day 