Sometimes, the hunger
that compels you to eat a
cookie is sadness.
Substitution
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Protection
Soldiers wear helmets.
Women wear makeup, styled hair.
Our mode of defense.
Fifth sense
Could I love you if
we did not touch, if I did
not mark you as mine?
Unbroken
The house of my heart
is white, clean, pure. No windows,
doors. No visitors.
Anticipation
Making travel plans,
like getting dressed for a date,
is a leap of faith.
Oh Christmas tree
We bring it home, put
it on life support so we
can hang ornaments.
Christmas tree lot
Sad orphans ripped from
the forest stretch out their limbs
pleading, ‘Take *me* home.”
Deal or no deal
TV’s “Fisherman
and His Wife” story for our
times. Unalloyed greed.
After the storm
Inside the snowglobe
winter’s still life settles as
flakes swirl in the air.
Otherworlds
Viriconium,
Gormenghast, Majipoor. Dark
journeys. Twisted dreams.
a haiku a day 