POETRY PACIFIC

After the fourth beast sang First we ate our dogs because they understood devotion and then we ate our horses because the buffalo were...

Passion Fog Disintegrate external talk into tactile trance. No need to say anything anymore. Misty pull: adored gent’s playful sent...

WILLOW DREAMING   Drought’s my season; red earth The soliloquy. Even This creek-bed’s cut its losses. Moribund crab-apple, you recogni...

To Benton at Age 5 Months I envy you babies who bathe all day in the shimmering golden light that streams through the nursery windows. ...

The Best of Both Worlds Stuff yourself with fast food and lower your cholesterol. Take pills and don´t become addicted. Live in the su...

BUSHIDO STEEL Only the winter wind surrounds me Soldiers do not come to look for death inside this cave My sword's calligraphy is p...

YELLOW FLOWERS Pain lot  Oh! cool night  divided the lives of people  in both the Sun and the Rain  ***  The moans of flowers...

Alice in Atwater Village My first kiss was a dare my first drink was stolen my first fuck was a threesome my first job I was fired ...

Askew Nature is out of plumb. Sere spring shrinks wetlands, shrivels garden, initiative, imagination. Morning walks bring us eye-to-ey...

AMBROSIA I drank Ambrosia, tipped her whispering veins    Tip my veins and taste what is forbidden of mine You can taste, smell, touch, ...

Meteorology A cluster of skies musters my soul to the beat of darkness falling, sowing iridescent cities globing your eyes. They ...

This Is How I Tell You That I Love You If you shoot at the king and you waver, no one will blink at the things that come next. He’ll tur...

hyperlinkage There is only one rule in hyper- linkage, to wit, you do not refer to yourself. Keeping that in mind in this paradise of c...

A Bad Taste Spilling down my throat are these tears I shed for you, on your behalf, for you failed to even do that for me. So I cri...

So how can ordinary people counter the assault of an increasingly violent state?                                 (Arundhati Roy) Though t...

Dance! “I grow them,” she said Of the 7 and 8 and 9 Year olds she bends Into little dancers While she leaps Across the stage Into th...

Aida She is always there my only true love forever her smile is my soul. 爱达 她总是无时不在 我唯一永恒的真爱 其笑容乃我之灵魂 California Dance during ...

I Thought Hound.  I Thought Sorrow I thought of the hound and sorrowed for her. Perhaps I sensed her swampy, backwoods breed. Paranoia w...

Nightly Impressions of Hong Kong, taken with Liu Yu on the night of 14 october 2014.

Those Who I Love I do not love those who do not have their shades. I do not love those who do not love their shades. I do love those who...

LOST I want to walk the streets again and find love, love in the cracks of the pavement love in stranger's eyes love in homeless e...

THE BOUNTY OF MY HARVEST * The harvest is over this year I wait for next year's summer Nature fails in its promise One season faith...

Ears In the middle Where I’m at a short road for motors longer for legs The cars come in groups Clusters from each direction, loud ...

Conversation Conversation is a dance under the 3 o'clock moon. Two heads of cattail bobbing in the wind. The dust swirls, lazy, And...

City in the East At the center, upon the peak of the grey hill, you hold the beating heart of the gyroscope; it goes round and round a...

dreamscape cornering sharp turns I dreamt of killer whales some sort of tsunami commanded these beautiful beasts to me black and white ...

Careless Thoughts Many battles, I've won and lost Picking myself up in fear of defeat I have no choice but to stand alone I trust ...

poem for my big sister it’s the time of the year I could              follow   you       around, find you by peel,                 ...

Solar Sparrows broke their contract with the sun And perched their blazing wings on a satellite panel. Restless, these fiery children fr...

Morale Call I was finally granted a “morale call” on the iridium satellite phone. Five Minutes Only. Thank God my wife picked up. It...

The Sky Cloud ribbons Stretch Jagged fingers Of color Rainbows Bridge gaps Between wispy strands Starfall Before the stars Fe...

The Fool They come at you with Saccharine apologies, Serotonin supplements, Scientifically accurate Formulas that promise to Make the...

Angles The angle between the sun’s rays and a reflection of it is not well-defined like how my face does not really flash my life expe...

cold cemetery: Most Overall Votes Tanka Splendor Contest floods and bridges: 7th International Tanka Festival Competition the Japan Tanka...

The Clarity of the Table A January thaw flying like a foraging snowy owl and throws a late morning sun into the kitchen illuminating the d...