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an american in paris
his french
in his pocket

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume IV, Number 2

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hot night
slipping out
of black lace

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku, Vol. XXVII, No. 3, FALL 1997

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your tenderness
as a night
unloads
its stars

acknowledgement : Blithe Spirit Volume 8, Number 4

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a palm open
for friendship
the lifeline short

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku Vol. XXIX, No. 2

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an evening
grown cool
wicker dragged
on tesserae

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku Vol. XXIX, No. 1

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october mist . . .
the myth of
strawberries and cream

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume V, Number 3

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the old woman
at the window
empty street

acknowledgement : Point Judith Light, Spring 1999

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alone
in london
sinatra's death
on the
radio

acknowledgement : Blithe Spirit, Volume 8 Number 4 [This tanka was incorrectly published as a haiku in Blithe Spirit]

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in a crowd
the sound of
a falling leaf

acknowledgement : The 2nd Mainichi Haiku Contest

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chinese painter
deciding
on rain

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku Vol. XXX, No. 1

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listening
to the tea cups
being
cleared away
twenty years ago

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku, Volume V, Humber 3

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a quiet evening
smoke in the sky
and i'm mending

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku, Volume V, Number 3

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this tomb
with a window
for a full moon

acknowledgement : Blithe Spirit, Volume 9 Number 1

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mama
with an empty gourd
calling wind

acknowledgement : stanza from 'Leaf Shadows - Ninenga' in Raw NerVZ Haiku, Volume V, Number 2

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the unending silence
one shooting star
after another

acknowledgement : Point Judith Light,, Spring-Summer 1999

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in the eternal flame
someone throws
an m & m wrapper

acknowledgement : stanza from 'Dinner for One - Renku' in Lynx, Vol. XII: No.2, 1997

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a touch
of leaf
autumn temple

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku, Vol. XXIX: No.2, Summer 1998

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a snail reading epitaph

acknowledgement : The 2nd Mainichi Haiku Contest -'Honourable Mention'.

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addicts sharing razors

acknowledgement : stanza from 'Drumming - Renku' in Lynx, Vol. XII: No.3,, 1997

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knee to knee
on the back porch
two 3-year-olds

acknowledgement : stanza from 'Dinner for One - Renku' in Lynx, Vol. XII: No.2, 1997

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empty nursery
stick-on stars
still glowing

acknowledgement : stanza from 'Dinner for One - Renku' in Lynx, Vol. XII: No.2, 1997

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after sunset
her old hands
folding napkins
for family who
do not come

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku, Volume V, Number 4 Winter 98-99

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the road to your house
so many stones
along the way

acknowledgement : Point Judith Light Spring-Summer 1999

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morning rain . . .
a train pulls into
the quiet station

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku, Vol. XXVIII: No.3, FALL 1997

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the shaded lawn
at the end of summer
the friends we won't see again

acknowledgement : Basho Festival Anthology 1997
[reprinted in its correct form here]

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birthday cake
the candles stay lit
in a photograph

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku, Vol. XXIX: No.2, Summer 1998

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your absence
at dusk
the banging door

acknowledgement : Frogpond XX:3, December 1997

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the chocolate heart
i share
with a stranger

acknowledgement : stanza from 'November Sky - Renku' in Raw NerVZ Haiku, Volume IV, Number 4, Winter 1997-8

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between us
armrest

acknowledgement : Frogpond XX:3 December 1997

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on offer
fortune cookies
past their
sell-by date

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume IV, Number 4, Winter 1997-98

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a hooker's face
under neon,
under age

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume IV, Number 2

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full moon and i'm untouched

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku, Volume V, Number 3 , Autumn 1998

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a little girl
with buttercups
shallow grave

acknowledgement : third stanza from 'Spring Flowers - Septenga' in Frogpond XX: 1 1997

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mother
eating in silence
sunday rain

acknowledgement : Ko Spring- Summer 1998

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company
for father's books
silverfish

acknowledgement : Frogpond XIX: 3, December 1996

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the sleep of long afternoons
dragonfly
brushing dream

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume 5 Number 2, Summer 1998

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father's death
the chip
on mother's fine china
too late for us
to be whole again

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume 5 Number 2, Summer 1998

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every 12 hours
they touch
watch dials

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume 5 Number 2, Summer 1998

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in a long stay ward the ramayana

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume IV Number 2

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boiling vats i hear the silence

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume V Number 1,Spring1998
[link 25 from 'Sweet Harlot - renku-a-trois' with Jerry Kilbride and Fay Aoyagi]

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hearts beating in a cattle train

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume V Number 4, Winter 98-99

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after the funeral
a mouth
red again

acknowledgement : Sunday at Four, Spring 1997

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in every late night bar your cologne

acknowledgement : Sunday at Four, Spring1997

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with your
clothes gone
a new silence

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku Vol. XXX, No. 2, Winter-Spring 1999

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moonlight
on a dead wasp
on the bare floor

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku Vol. XXX, No. 2, Winter-Spring 1999

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i write this poem
in the old house
of memory
where dead cats
crunch the gravel

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume 5 Number 2, Summer 1998

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finding out
about the loneliness
after the suicide

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku Vol. XXX, No. 1, Winter-Spring 1999

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i'm afraid to ask you a daytime moon

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume V, Number 3, Autumn 1998

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the note
he leaves
before autumn
the silence
of ink
drying

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume V, Number 3, Autumn 1998

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graveyard visit
i talk to myself

acknowledgement : Frogpond XX1:1

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the woman
who asked
for a full moon
her shadow
sits alone

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1998

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the recluse naming every chopstick

acknowledgement : link from 'Dinner for One - Renku' in Lynx Vol. X11, No. 2, 1997

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buried
a cat
today
the cross
in my eye

acknowledgement : Raw NerVZ Haiku Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1998

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no one asked the cows about BSE

acknowledgement : link from 'Drumming- Renku' in Lynx Vol. XII, No. 3,, 1997

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cicada shell
burying it
without song

acknowledgement : Mainichi Haiku Contest 1997

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woodcutter . . .
in his dream
he hears the woodpecker

acknowledgement : Point Judith Light Spring-Summer 1999

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moonlight
in the yard
and on
the rooftiles
i cannot sleep

acknowledgement : American Tanka Issue 4, Spring 1998

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remembering a friend
tanka sequence

the reading
of the will
in her favourite room
the clock ticks
into the long afternoon

we speak in whispers
hushed by twilight
and curtains drawn
a gloved hand
fondles a mourning brooch

tea served
in the most fragile of
porcelain cups
an imprint of lipstick
the brightest note of the day

she comes to mind
as i remember her
loving yet unloved
by the one
who mattered most

carrying on without her
dark umbrellas which haven't dried
line a hallway
where the only sound
is the wind outside

another night of remembrance
stars in every window
as i remind myself
that in the morning
a sale board will be going up

packing up to go
everywhere the echoes of laughter
former joy
and the welcome ghost
of a wind-chime

acknowledgement : Tanka Splendor 1997and Blithe Spirit Volume 8 Number 1, March 1998

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a mother and a folded flag in an empty house

acknowledgement : People's Poetry Letter, Volume 4, No. 3 Summer/Fall 1998

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leaving them alone
moonlight
on roses

acknowledgement : 'Cold Morning' An International Haiku Anthology[The Herb Barrett Award, Canada]

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your birthday
in the sky
the paper plane
i fold
in an empty room

acknowledgement : American Tanka Issue 5, Fall 1998

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the microphone picking up a heartbeat

acknowledgement : People's Poetry Letter, Volume 5, No. 3 Summer/Fall 1998

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a beggar passing
hears
the hot bath

acknowledgement : stanza from 'In Town - Septenga' in Frogpond XIX:3 December 1996

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the sons
of dead men
in nursing homes

acknowledgement : Bluthe Spirit, Volume 8 Number 2, June 1998

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tapemeasure brushing scrotum

acknowledgement : 'From a Kind Neighbor', Haiku Society of America Anthology 1997

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the stripper had multi-coloured fingernails

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku Vol. XXIX, No. 2, Summer 1998

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midnight . . .
the widow puts her smile
in a glass

acknowledgement : Blithe Spirit Volume 9 Number 1, March 1999

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anniversary moon . . .
he sits on
her half of their bench

acknowledgement : Modern Haiku Vol. XXIX, No. 1, Winter-Spring 1998

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5 am
and a world
healing me

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