Haikus 3

the pain of the mask

the echo beneath the smile

the eye of the storm

you are just so cute

you remind me of grandma

countertransference!

a quake of the mind

the family becomes ripples

love becomes sirens

sand stuck wet eyelid

the air far away blowing

the weight pressing down

brains connects through breath
invisible wind blows leaves
far apart we blink


I am caregiver

I watch the water run low

memory dried out

acceptance me, you

the problem is the echo

because I listen

sentences eclipsed

end with raindrop ellipses

breadcrumbs in the woods

always forgetting

stream rushes over the bank

hands full of wet earth

modeling the sky

your double here from the past

lets laugh for awhile

raindrop never forms

never hits the forest floor

it's always falling


lost under the sea
swimming toward the next bubble
here in the moment


construct deconstruct
the pendulum swings here there 
then deconstruction


wow they are so smart
those white men those white men now dead
where did they get off

birth a dream a myth

a mountain shadow reaching

death late afternoon

body holds the scream

long after the sound fades away

the ears keep ringing

3 year-old alone

except for little brother

wandering streets small

becoming even then

archaic as the icebox

holding back the change