Bat Hang [Haiku]

a flying fox hangs
from lush vegetation,
reaching monkey-like

The Sound of Dry [Haiku]

grass in winter
rustles with such tight clacks;
 i hear its dryness

Crow Gaze [Haiku]

Crow & Blossom; Ohara Koson (1910)
a crow alights
upon a flowery branch --
beak pointing at me

Luddite Limerick

There was a crotchety old luddite
who smashed all technology on sight...
'til he needed Google 
to look up "centrifugal"
else it'd be the bus to the library at night.

Into the Light [Free Verse]

crawling from the cave,
like Plato's untethered shadow man

a portal to perfection,
as perfect as anyplace can be:
meaning, it has depth
&
credibility

the day is cloudy,
and yet it's blinding,
blinding to eyes attuned to 
the light of dancing orange flames,
flames seen secondhand --
bounced off a wall,
a dark, dank wall

what amazing sights
must there be -
out there

don't disappoint me
now

Snail Stealth [Haiku]

snail on a stone wall
remains still for hours on end;
on my next pass, gone

The Optimist [Limerick]

A man laid down with a wound to the head.
The doctor claimed he was already dead.
"It's really not so bad.
This one time I had
two swords in my brain," the optimist said. 

Abbey Moon [Haiku]

Kirkstall Abbey by Moonlight; Walter Linsley Meegan
(1899)
moonlight dances
upon the gliding waters,
before stout ruins