Silhouette World [Haiku]

summer dusk:
 our world is flat & black,
  while sky is textured.

Kafka Clerihew

The Bohemian writer Franz Kafka,
 more conflicted than Queen Jocasta,
  wrote tales, absurd -n- surreal...
   yet how factual they feel.

Springtime [Haiku]

spring is here.
 the hills have greened.
  the field is plowed.

Well-lit Leaf [Haiku]

big, busy leaf:
light bullets through,
too fast to process.

Rocking Boats [Haiku]

boats rock in the bay,
 their languid motion watched
  'til darkness swallows. 

Ramzan Mela [Free Verse]

A fire flares
   up Mosque Road.

Orange flames burn brightly 
    beyond the ovals lit by 
    feeble streetlamps.

Some fat 's hit the fire,
    and the smoke 's
    rising high.

The throngs have arrived --
    hungry & huddled,
    with tiny plates of 
    jiggly cubed meat.

The pious --
    angry stomachs, 
    vibrating to sundown

&

Impious Instagrammers
    (or, at least, substantially less pious,)
    having their eighth tiny meal
    of the day
    (some spit into a bucket, Hollywood-style.)

All gathered to break bread --
    except there is no bread
    (save the occasional roomali roti) 

So, instead, they bite basa or mutton 
    or chicken or camel or prawns --

all smoky

all devoured. 

Machine Flow [Free Verse]

This machine can flow,
     moving over, around, 
     & through.

Skin conforms to the contours
     of musculature.

Muscle binds to bone,
     muscle that thickens
     and lengthens and ripples
     and pulses.

Bones that flex and recoil.

But that machine can flow --
     over, around, and through.

It can cause air to pop
     and water to slosh
     and earth to tremor.

It crawls through liquid,
    slices through gases,
    and slams the solids,

but can move over, around,
    and through.

Beach Bunker [Senryū]

bunker on the beach
sends mixed messages about
trip tranquility.

Balanced Chaos [Haiku]

the tree stretches
wildly in all directions,
and yet feels balanced.