Greek In/Fancy

of light 

windy hillocks 

swaddled 

 

in 

undulate swaths 

of bittersweet thyme. 

 

 

 

 

Light's Dark Hideaway

You can never really 

Get enough of it— 

 

Even in full daylight, some orphaned 

Part of you wants all the light 

 

That’s still out there hiding, 

Waiting for the right sign 

 

To take you in. 

 

 

 

 

 

Haiku: If The Shoe. . . .Blah Blah

—for Joseph Hutchison, kindred pitchman 

 

 

To find the challenge 

Gauche enough to find the right 

Syllables to fit.

 

Haiku: Ambivalent Turning Point(s)

Take one more step there— 

Not the same as one more step 

There to take, is it? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haiku: Climate Deniers

Jackdaws chatter on 

Tips of blighted cypresses, 

Biting acid tongues. 

 

 

 

 

 

Light Satyric Lyric

Those firm apples nearing 

Fullness upon the green 

 

Bough, her bodice tight 

To the point 

 

Of bursting, tart 

Nipples breasting 

 

Forth, oh dear

God that dappled 

 

Runaway light! 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet Early Spring Affair

 —for Eleni

 

On the patio 

Facing the garden, 

In-between 

 

Our mutual scrolling through 

The morning news, out of the corner 

Of my eye, I can just make out 

 

A pair of sparrows skittering in 

Our singular blossoming 

Almond tree— 

 

I wonder what it is 

You’re looking at, 

My love.