Hard Rock Cafe, Niagara Falls

All around it, the
town is dead. Pity the poor
taken investors.

Cave of the Winds tour

A romantic name
for a seagull poop splashed walk
among spray and rocks.

Going over Niagara Falls

A schoolteacher in
a barrel did what no man
could – lived to tell it.

Strangers in a strange town

Our waitress admits
the town has its share of ghosts.
We sleep with lights on.

Niagara Falls

Just water on rock.
And yet, sheer power compels
visitors to gape.

Harbinger of spring

An unexpected
crocus emerges, smiling
from a brown leaf pile.

You take after your mother

My weirdness is as
apparent in my kids as
streaks in a fake tan.

If gum were chocolate

Like cows with their cud
we would chew constantly, and
then we’d all swallow.

500 haikus

From a Revealing
start to this auspicious point –
my life in short form.

Laptop

An adult blankie.
To take one from its owner
will make grown men cry.