Things with Wings
The following poems, originally written in March and April 2012, were first published on 23 June 2012 in Things with Wings, a free online book in PDF format published by Yay Words, edited by Aubrie Cox.
the neon buddha
loses focus
on photography
•
marked by drips
from her ice cream
the way home
•
tsunami anniversary—
a thousand cranes
still to be folded
•
speed dating—
she asks me
about her breath
•
pelting rain . . .
the dormouse
finding shelter
•
wishing well—
my wish to give you
a hundred pennies
•
birth announcement . . .
a plum petal falls
into my open palm
•
the scent of snow . . .
a forever stamp
on your breakup letter
•
green flash—
if I fell in love,
would you catch me? +
•
narcissus in bloom . . .
the gumshoe tells me
I’ve been framed
•
family trip . . .
no wish
for reincarnation
•
snails have eaten her roses
thanks again
to my procrastination
•
summer’s end . . .
unfinished books
in a pile for the library
•
summer starlight . . .
the featured poet
alone with her stack of books
