Autumn is icumen in

By the month of August summer’s done Bored with the heat and lengthy day The spiderweb stretches across the walkway Continue reading →

Where I lived: Highland Ave, Edgewater

Piggy Peggy and Sweaty Betty Rented us a flat They never really liked us but We didn’t care about that Continue reading →

31 Haiku for July: 4th week

July 24 Listen to the wind Blowing through open windows To start the soft day July 25 All the blinds Continue reading →

Everywhere I lived in Chicago*

1 Gold Coast midrise My mother’s place Elevator building with a pool The type of place that people live Who Continue reading →

Covid-ku

Dinner with best friends Such a normal thing to do And yet so strange In wet summer air How to Continue reading →

Flight school

Baby robins have taken over My fenced-in yard And seem resentful of my presence Unlike their parents Who blithely ignore Continue reading →

Everywhere I lived in college

I can’t make the math work And the calendar is jumbled, too I know I started in the dorm And Continue reading →

Thorns

I picked blackberries today. The brambles made me think about our wedding song “the ripest fruit hangs Where only two Continue reading →