Frog Taunt [Senryū]

a sunning frog
 taunts all predators
  to test their weight. 

Infinite Regress [Free Verse]

The sweep of trees
   forms a mandala.

The eye roams over it,
    looking for a center
      that doesn't exist. 

Those roving eyes
    rove & repeat:
       caught in an 
       infinite loop. 

And I wonder what hides
    in the arc of trees?

What monsters mimic
    the sinuous spine 
        of those pointy trees? 

Whose eyes catch
    the fine light,
       reflecting back a
       burning bright-yellow?

What lives unseen?
    What flows unbidden?
       What empties out, 
           but returns?
           and returns?
           and returns... 

Sunny Side [Haiku]

the setting sun
 fires the mountain's Yang-side
  to max contrast.

Into the Woods [Haiku]

how short a walk,
 back turned to the city,
  to be free.

Boats in Motion [Haiku]

boats rise & roll
with constant motion; as
gentle waves lap ashore.

Buck Vigilant [Haiku]

vigilant buck:
 aware of photographer
  as others feed.

State Change [Haiku]

water smashes shore,
rising as foam then raining
back down as liquid.

Owl? Moth? Owl-Moth [Tanka]

on a tree, the moth
 looks like a pair of eyes framed
  in a hidey-hole.
 on marble steps, the moth
  just looks like a moth.