some late 1970s through 1990 one-line haiku

 cold day a bicycle leans against the pet shop
snowed in my poem in a magazine
cloudy day half a load of clothes in the wash
letter to a gay friend a love stamp
a hot day an inchworm drops from the high leaves
arrested in knoxville two women holding hands
a leaf floats through the chill
haze 2 british scientists discuss african women's milk
spring in america water unsafe food unsafe sex unsafe
our parting the moon draws me in
scratched into the mountain shadows of the moon
summer night paul winter
beyond the sink of undone dishes bird feeder
the long day you leave as it begins
wind sock the fading year
dog days envelopes stuck shut
everyone gets married and has kids the heat
thrush song a few days before the thrush
leaves have fallen moon mountain
winter night writing letters to get letters
the long day the mail already come
back home i unwrap into myself
leaves fall you touch me
a size larger tried on the heat
waking you at three
nuclear winter (nuclear spring nuclear summer nuclear fall)
the heat a poem about the heat
nothing special a haiku magazine in the mail
contra contra contra contra contra contra contra
uncertain until the moon appears
autumn i am drawn deeper inside
haiku: every word that exists any emotion that comes up
she's anti woman
winter day a new broom for the old floor
free haiku
cold morning the quarter hits bottom in the parking meter
only $349 he announces      the heat
first freeze a friendly reminder in the mail
woodstock beyond pot asbestos in the drinking water
first bleeding of the year
first day new handle on the sharpened axe
dark day i pull nails from old boards
my life      mist            mountain
the day enough for two lifetimes in rain i pass a hitchhiker
off and on i've thought of you off and on
you've penned your poem to my paper
every light in the house dark
two mountains the one here green the one there blue
morning quick love and feeling it all day
rain on the roof the drops that get through
letter ends with love wood piled high
alone all mountain
abandoned notebook paper 'dear grandmother' cicadas
new widow sends a child's valentine to her priest
snow on snow  strains of the hourglass dulcimer
icy rain   drawing the man within
dead end street  her love given in the yellow house
late movie over  tick of the clock in the next room
midnight the quiet is not loneliness
autumn evening   the dust heavier now on his books
another night of snow  rereading a distant friend's haiku
into the room from the sun not in at all
waning moon the erection remains in the photograph
still the taste of your laugh between my teeth
not a resolution just something i begin on the new day
the heat the heat the heat a sprinkle the heat the
my mind floats lickerishly as your hand touches me
off the pill waiting to see who my body is
solstice women gather unwrap the moon
fearing her and all women he rapes her and all women
opossum   now   blacktop
i no longer hear from her
even in spring underlying melancholy
strident about trident
you leave i sink back into ourselves
full moon alone i touch my wetness of you
autumn ends unable to explain what i've lost
one day into another our night between
we kiss beyond our nakedness
leaves fall i need nothing you touch me
leaving him she whispered in the grocery store
ovulation fold the mountain scattered with mist
the joy of seeing pain in haiku
well, just who the hell do you think fucked it up, caterpillars
i do not cry yet the ish-ish of our moon
good guys aren't enough
stunted by those years with him
moments keenly perceived i walk past hardhats
autumn stillness i take the bad times to heart
not admitting to it nothing special
white sugar white flour white male
the here and now we commit 'crimes against nature'
black history month women's week the rest white male
alone middle of the night i am not alone
country road cat dropped off bellyfull
old cat slowly settles into a pose
back home i find my shape in the old couch
half eaten sandwich on the picnic table  the heat
spring rain a jogger jogging his privates
alone in my thoughts you've hardened
red mud caked on the tow truck the heat
sunset a tampon swirls in the bowl
alone   detached   an evening of spring
boatwoman rescued thrown into a prostitution ring
stray dog growling at the scarecrow   the heat
leaves in the wind red in the leaves
alone   sheets worn by two   backlit
alone stretching deeper into the sheets worn by two
i am bleeding
edge off winter his kiss in the chicken house
mountain road the winter winter winter of it
new disk jockey reading the news the heat
you leave i'm to wait 2 weeks to see what you've left
new moon red on the white tissue paper
bank balance on the office computer the cold
all day office meeting the first mountain at dusk
arms definition to put around a body not to kill it
calendar starts with the first day's fire
equal, hell
up front after hello are you with us
new year's how i wish the world could rebegin
basho's prostitute bush clover moon poem & japanese sex trade
a gang of one ranting and raving in the mountain
the long night if i am not me who is
coal oil lamp left by grandmother autumn night
my son turns into a hamburger the heat
my son the age sons get killed
   death of a poet of death poems   1
   the long autumn and no letter from raymond   2
    calling her son forest unmarried woman in the woods   3
    we three by the pond he mentions poverty first   4
     rains finally come we three share our womanlives   5
     a second friend with aids first falling leaves   6
     first day of spring opening her letter earth on my hands   7
    solstice at 47 the new belief in myself   8
    water falls all over itself over the falls   9
     autumn dusk the crooked road home   10
    she speaks of her pain all of the windows up   11
    morning-glory folds into herself into her folds   12
    old bed we jump into love sound   13
     host guest nothing said: grass   14
      blood in the folded napkin   15



1 Nick Virgilio   2 Raymond Roseliep   3 Lucinda Flodin 
4 Kaaren Hayes, Alice Naylor   5 Kaaren Hayes, Lowell Hayes  
6 Mark Connolly   7 Jane Reichhold   8 for Sonia Johnson         
9 Japan Air Lines Haiku Contest, 1988, runner-up 
 10 Museum of Haiku Literature (Tokyo) Award, 1987 
11 The First International Women's Haiku Competition, 1989, HM  
 12 HSA Harold G. Henderson Award, 1979, HM
13 after Basho   14 after Shiki   15 after Cor van den Heuvel


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