not listening to / the Zen lecture / the Japanese maple

junkyard / crows / in a '59 chevy

moving day / wrapping the picture / in yesterday's news

all night / shifting sides of the bus / the winter moon

all night diner / a Heinz bottle empties / into a Heinz bottle

without you / separating the darks / from the whites

leaving the zendo / feeling close to enlightenment / a car cuts me off

morning frost / the motel pumpkin / has no face

listening to Mozart / slicing zucchini / and my finger

Christmas Eve / the streetwalker / in a mini-skirt

peddler's top hat / the afternoon sleet mixes / with nickels and dimes

after quarreling / the geranium / in a chock full o' nuts can

after Mozart / moving differently / than usual

Gideon bible / a thousand miles / from home.

moonlight / filling / mason jars

winter morning / stepping into the darkness / and my pants

snowed in / afterwards / teapot letting off steam

now and again / out of a hole in the ice / seal heads

bitter cold / another / John Doe

at the pond / quoting Jesus and Buddha / the honking geese

outside the barn / the rusty wheelbarrow / filling with snow

ancient shrine / the tourist offers a dollar / to hug the holy man

full moon / a devotee throws something / in the fire

fish heads / the old butcher in his / blood stained apron

she says she's a Buddhist / a Japanese maple / blooming in Brooklyn

tweet / tweet / tweet

never leaving the mountainside / orange flowers / blooming and dying

drought / even the / milk cow

birthday mail / a card marked 'occupant' / and an electric bill

backwoods / an old Pontiac half in / the still water creek

meat market / seeing myself / in the window

border town / breastfeeding mother / asks for a handout

a daisy / in a Perrier bottle / the room for rent

the fat lady / fanning herself / with a fly swatter

pier sunset / in old wooden baskets / crabs crawl on crabs

waking from / dreams of death / egg scrambling sounds

pre-dawn / morphing / into myself

backwoods / orange flowers bloom / on an unmarked grave

this rainy morning / my haiku / becoming a prayer

rainy morning / 20years / between confessions

coffe house / swatting the fly / with Kierkegaard

sunrise / a cow / eating her placenta

the 'greatest show on earth' / a man shovels / elephant shit

without you / the same fly / in yesterday's soup

five or six freckles / on the sunny part / of her thigh

waking / the fog / becoming this haiku

40th birthday / choosing a suit / to be buried in

drought / cucumbers and the farmer's face / withering

bordertown / a small boy selling his sister / in two languages

backwoods / thecreek / full of moon

after scattering your ashes / missing / the last bus of the night

talking / to the cows / the heat

deathbed / not hearing / your last words

just breathing in / just breathing out / this runny nose

spring rain / my yawn / your yawn

biopsy results / that moment before / becoming a statistic

snail / in a damp corner / of a parched field

the heat / unfastening / her braid

retreat / even the Zen Master / uses the toilet

spring dawn / the living and the dead / arrive at the Ganges

rain coming / the sacred cows / tell of it first

inside the camera / a holy man chats / with an old leper

Delhi train station / an armless beggar / picks up a coin with his foot

hashish aroma / clippers laying next to / the half sheared sheep

the long day / a string of burros / refusing to move

spring evening / curry and rice simmer over / the fire of dried dung

moonless night / a Nandi bull / and a rickshaw collide

eyeing the lepers / the old shepherd sings loudly / to his goats

truck stop / 1000 miles from home / the waitress winks

fishing village / through baskets of lobsters / the fog seeps

the ancient shrine / tourist offers one rupee / to hug the holy man

on the way / to the outhouse / fireflies

a line of lepers / the evening rain filling / their begging bowls

four a.m. / stepping into the darkness / and my pants

summer breezes / old friends talk / of reincarnation

arguing over money / each claiming it's the / principle of the matter

cucumbers / withering / on cucumbers

the heat / lifting your hair / from your neck

the heat / removing dead chickens / from the coop

a cup of coffee / alone / 3000 miles from home

the heat / cows / chewing cuds

summer moon / filling / mason jars

40th anniversary / she falls asleep / doing the crossword

heat wave / the old cobbler / tapping himself to sleep

never leaving the mountainside / unknown flowers / blooming and dying

old wooden baskets / full of dusk / the widow's rake

the heat / a clothes line / strung between two trailers

after the storm / the Buddha in the garden / still sitting

the day after / dawn turning black and white / into technicolor

after the retreat / feeling close to enlightenment / a car cuts me off

meditating / every now and then / silence breaks the noise

New year's morning / waking up / to yesterday's soup

winter morning / that deep breath before meeting / the oncologist