Monogamous Geometer [Limerick]

There once was a monogamous Geometer
who could angle in inches or kilometers.
"I do love triangles,
except love triangles,"
At orgies he was a nervous vomiter. 

Young & Old [Haiku]

bamboo, young & supple,
looms over knurly and
stunted hardwoods

Nettle [Haiku]

i’ve seen nettles,
& i’ve felt nettles —
better the former

DAILY PHOTO: Chowmahalla, Hyderabad

Taken in Hyderabad in August of 2022

Root of Suffering [Haiku]

between boulders
grows a sinewy tree --
robust by ordeals

Cattails [Free Verse]

In a patch of Deccan wetlands,
I see the cattails of my Hoosier youth.

Half a world away,
and nature grants me continuity
that culture can't provide.

I am transported to my youth
by a common landscape.

Indiana -- India,
names almost the same, 
but ever so different...

except the cattails.