tsuri-dōrō journal, 2021

half-buried leaves 

the years we spent together 

as strangers 

last stage cancer 

the leaf skeleton dangling 

from a tree 

young therapist 

asking less 

telling more 

tsuri-dōrō, Issue #6 – Nov/Dec 2021


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tiger lily
pausing my thoughts
ellipses

Issue#5 of tsuri-dōrō – a small journal of haiku and senryū

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ebb tide
adding an ellipsis
to my melancholy


dark poem
counting syllables
the raven and I

tsuri-dōrō journal, Issue #4 – July/Aug 2021


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bamboo wind—
she proposes to him
in her mother tongue

reconciliation—
the moon’s halo outshines
the moon


tsuri-dōrō Issue #3 – May/June 2021