Tea Master [Free Verse]

drink the wisdom --
you'll find it more in the heat
than in the liquid

subtle - 
like the flavor of tea

in drinking it 
you'll discover:

there is no tea,
but the tea --
a tea-less tea

the life in you
the life in me
melted into a mound
of unity

Unclocked Hours [Free Verse]

Stepping out onto a city street
in the cool, unclocked hours
of the morning.

One looks about,
but not as one does in daylight --
i.e. in response to sound.

Instead, one looks about
in response to the lack of sound.

A clawing sound 
from a burrowing rat
isn't worth one's attention.

It's the silence 
that calls upon the mind
as to a sailor on shore leave.

Autumn’s Elegy [Haiku]

leaf-lined walks
in the cemetery --
autumn's elegy

Bleeding Leaf [Haiku]

each leaf bleeds red
with its own blotched pattern
in its own time

Moon Echo [Haiku]

the moon ‘s an echo
of the porchlight that burns
across the yard

The Outsider [Haiku]

two parrots peck
as a chipmunk watches -
the outsider

Fall in the Cemetery [Haiku]

autumn graveyard --
one tree holds its leaves
for no one in particular

Caterpillar [Haiku (Times Two)]

caterpillar
crosses the wood bridge;
too impatient to fly

OR

caterpillar
crosses the wood bridge;
how's it know bridges?