Physician’s Limerick

There was a mean old physician
who'd always been on a grand mission
to make patients thinner.
He told them for dinner
they should only eat what they caught fishin'.

Evidence [Haiku]

two shucked nuts
sit on a stone pillar --
no squirrel in sight

Winter Cardinal [Haiku]

swollen cardinal
looks like it's been gorging,
but it's winter puffed

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