glass

a glass half empty

on the windowsill

autumn sunset

First published in Ambrosia

snack

midnight snack

at the kitchen window

a bite out of the moon

First posted as a response to an original by Melissa Allen at her blog. You can see her excellent original (and, if you're not already acquainted with it, get to know her blog) by clicking on red dragonfly in the list of blogs on the home page.

memory

autumn memory

of those walks with my father . . .

the silences

A slightly revised version of a haiku originally posted at the Caribbean Kigo Kukai

commute

commuter train

an abandoned crossword

started in ink

shadows

morning shadows

a summer cough

lingers

First published in Acorn

moving in

moving in

to my sand castle

the sea

Third place, Caribbean Kigo Kukai 28. Assigned kigo: sand

difference

the difference

a sparrow makes –

bare branches

First published in The Heron's Nest