1.

starry night...
our glowworm jar
remains empty


2.

midnight bus
the door swings open
to moonlight


3.

sunlit clouds
a lesson from my niece
on dragons


4.

Confederate battlefield
a teenage couple
making out


5.

funeral flowers
       a butterfly stops
at the red one


6.

day's end...
the hospital nurse
takes a smoke break


7.

summer mountain
a starling dives
into sunset


8.

roadside beggar
the BMW
lurches forward


9.

hazy moon...
a jewel beetle finds
my earlobe


9(b).

hazy moon-
I follow her lead
into Salsa


10.

wild oranges
the photo of a girl
I once kissed


11.

childhood room
the story of my life
on wire hangers


12.

sunrise...
my father settles
into lotus


13.

noon downpour
a rainbow trickles
into the gutter


14.

reading Marx
another moth burns
in the zapper


15.

factory strike
the newscaster pans
to a baby


16.

summer dusk
a pink bra leaves
with the tide


17.

morning moon
in the tourist shop
2 dollar starfish


17(b)

distant thunder
a heron wanders
the roadway


18.

leaving gym
the wrestling coach slams
his gas pedal


19.

fly in the kitchen
only the haiku poet
smiles


20.

predawn moon
the working girl retouches
her lipstick


21.

bedroom heat
an evening spent
in blues


22.

funeral procession
every car
avoids the roadkill


23.

green dragonflies...
the children pretend
to be super villains


24.

city wildfire
the dollhouse safe
on the sidewalk


25.

sliver moon...
the Wal-mart sign
flickers up


26.

evening star
again, the stray cat
with one eye


27.

vintage radio...
             mayflies gather
    on the patio door


28.

graveyard shift
a stock boy arranges
the carrots


29.

foreclosed home
a hopscotch fading
on the driveway


29(b).

           midday sun
      where the stone hit
         a cloud of ants
       

30.

evening frogs
the heron leaves
with a new song


31.

party over
the stripper tells me
her real name