sport

sports bar

the barmaid

knows the score

(Published in Simply Haiku)

in the city

snow in the city

nobody home

in the cardboard box

(Magnapoets January 2008 [premiere issue])

spikey

spikey grass

the hard bright sun

of winter

Another for WCW

daybreak

a rusted wheelbarrow

catches the sun

look familiar?

this is just to say

the plums in the icebox

are for breakfast

(Shiki Kukai, January 2008)

New Journal

The premier issue of Magnapoets journal, edited by our friend Aurora Antonovic, has just appeared. The journal will be published biannually. For information regarding submissions and subscriptions, go to http://www.magnapoets.com. Single copies are $5; a 2-issue annual subscription, $10.

Contents include an interview with Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, fiction, poetry (including a poem by my friend Collin Barber), short stories, articles, and tanka. And, of course, haiku and senryu, including two of mine, which I'll be posting here in the near future.

love poem

Valentine's Day

she asks her aging husband

if he needs to pee

(Overheard at a restaurant this evening, February 14.)

baseball

baseball field

winter wind

on the mound

(Published in Sketchbook)

change

No, I'm not running for president. But you may notice some changes, made in the interests of clarity, in the list of links to the left. Most of the blogs are now identified by the owner's name. This will help especially if you want to explore the work of one of our frequent visitors.

cold moon

cold moon

the silence

of the carousel

(Second place, Sketchbook kukai, January 2008)

Chinatown

Chinatown

men in gray suits

guide the dragon

Happy lunar new year!

(Published, in a slightly different version, at Sketchbook)

ash

Ash Wednesday

this is the year

he'll quit

(Directly inspired by a mardi gras ku by polona, which I have just read at her blog; click on crows & daisies to the left.)

Super II & III

II

Tuesday afternoon

arguments over the game

dying down

III

Super Tuesday

no one comes out

undefeated

[Super Tuesday: 22 states are holding presidential primaries today.]

midwinter

midwinter night

an overturned trash can

back and forth

[February 4 is "midwinter day"--exactly halfway between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox. I'm grateful to mankh, poet and friend, for pointing this out.]

Super

Super Bowl Sunday

she asks if there's anything

on television

groundhog day 2008

groundhog day

some of that gray

is my shadow

found-ku

5000 YEARS OF

CHINESE CULTURE

Only 9 Days Left

[From an ad for a show at Radio City Music Hall in this morning's NY Times]