one-line linked haiku  december 16 1998-january 3 1999

on all alike

not enough snow to plow the house plows on
spider seeds dry enough for zip-lock baggies
'george eastman made the first strip film'
wrongful insemination will someone pay thru the nose
glad tomorrow another day and longer with nowhere to go
neighbor's backhoe in mud near my given-up-on homesite
how a tiny female sculpture lasts half a million years
mountain mailbox a jewel of a letter from cactus land
real psychic readings and real women for masturbation
from sunday to sunday tiny ounces of odera
i try very hard not to art what i know
funniest ever hiro's 'when i raised my face'
red meat in a 'discovery channel' voice
the buddy system the domino effect
back to earth y2k bug & non-millennium fears
'when it concerns a woman does anyone ever want the facts'
dennis see http://www.webcom.com/gimbutas/welcome.html
between snowed-in and snowed-in alone with what i have

notes
6m) old film on film, 'tcm' 7m) boston regional medical center 20m) octuplet
24m) 'a favorite haiku' 31m) marlowe in 'lady in the lake'

Raw Nervz Haiku 5:4 1998/99


two-line tanka by two: 1   december 28-29 1998

poor william's almanac

fear of female seas a dirty big secret
once-a-month even eleven-year-olds haiku for kids
creators' calendar denigrated by male time
hadn't a clue until my own blood now the tv ads
i yell across the pond that's the best time
blood on his mouth when i kiss & then more deeply

Raw Nervz Haiku 6:1 1999

two-line tanka by two: 2 december 31 1998-january 3 1999

urth earth irth

salt of the earth night sound of the snow plow
these worn-down mountains in them
no wonder stink bugs do it root odors rock odors
unearthed: a nest of bird shevinities
country dweller=pagan beyond political lies of rome
long trip out of africa all thumbs *

two-line tanka by two: 3    january 4-6 1999

lunacy

two moons this month whatever happened to the era
downhill from she to love goddess to a man
giant leap usa flag golf balls soon ashes of death
unhomoonoked from japanese autumn a start
'when the mountain comes over the moon'
ragged luna on the ragged screen door

Raw Nervz Haiku 6:4 2001

one-line linked haiku  january 5-february 2 1999

red sound

first cold snap in deep night the red sound of pump trucks
between one line linked haiku links i win again at solitaire
no announcement needed another dangerous 'year of the male'
i crave morels i failed to seek in may
the wrongwing-get-clinton-conspiracy blues
bottom land dispute where a rusty fence ends
desmond a little boy artist without fingers
cold even the weather forecaster opinionated
jack-in-the-pulpit to vagina-in-the-woods
someone trying to save a marriage no sex no money 2 kids
mother nature hath no fury like a house manager's scorn
wow higg's 'anti-female bias of japanese society' & blyth
sudden break in the weather green bags to a green dumpster
grease-burn if red streak gets any longer er says get here
underground cave is that where the bomber lives his life
for a visual idea just a red relating to . . .
you could write a book: why i live at the p.l.
will this be the year the heron i raised returns

note
23m) 'modern haiku' 30:1

 

one-line linked haiku  march 29-april 2 1999

a space called cyber

kind words come through a space called cyber my mind melts
high school crush all summer he returns with a pregnant wife
oscar tuxedos the italian walks on the tops of chair backs
wonder when all will be said and done
neighbor dogs in the yard bark and sniff for moles
not done in japanese haiku but just fine with mm
law office shoes caked how to protect my land in death
tv show horse with a man's head or is it the reverse
no trail happy in their forced march madness
under rule of the father hisstory/history repeats himself
ireland never had snakes attempted goddess/symbol killing
tired bones muscles legs broken nails rough skin ah spring
old folks home nursing home rest home: retirement village
today another tomorrow earth raining on a blue april sky
'standing by live' a talking head on hold for commercials
captive soldiers are they blinking a code
baseball season spitting's back & philosophy
all day nature-crevicing i forget my life's work

one-line linked haiku     may 9-16 1999

leap and link

link and leap not unlike all of nature including ourselves
another tragedy again i ask for separation of god and tv
a few miles away a big tva pond i suppose it's still there
underwear the color of damp earth i ran my fingers thru
bird seed out of reach the mouse now rummages the shag
place your bet date of the next crackdown in china
whatever the original the translations: my land you die
no martha stewart a tangled garden i weave
life's too short to count
out of gas just as i get home heavy rain groceries a little boy
can't even afford those glitzy 'cheap imports' go figure
art project hang all the rapists/molesters by how they're hung
rerun of '4 weddings and a funeral' while i win at solitaire
intermingled with jacks & poison ivy the search for may apple
when called the birds come for seeds no cooking no washing up
post-election the fake wrestler admits his past
ecstasy of defeat when human animals lose to owls
oh what little ears you big mama frog no bull you

a '2fer1' one-line linked haiku  may 16-21 1999

here outta sight

no flight from the city from the 'burbs just here outta sight
even if i got the chance where's the bite: oh go fly a kite
a bit frightening when seen up close little-bitty dust mites
i call him r h blight more than a slight towards me
plight of bats of females man's sleight of hand
secretly delighted in spite of the daily hassles
a thin line if i invite or get invited to write
quite hidden in garden stones rites of our triangle
could use a light grooming the males in a fight
height of pain the dr i call mr recites: learn to live with it
another right-winger out of billions bites the political dust
says beneath him to paint a ceiling of trite sprites & whatnots
wind lightning rain trees uprooted near the abandoned home site
dynamite united the townspeople and those glued to their sets
politely to phd guys: goodall connected chimps tools termites
unrequited you-know-what best unrequited?
dispite--if that's a word--malachite--whatever that's
cellulite doubtful maybe jargon from 'the hite report'

notes
2fer1: over-all rhyme sound with 2 on each line 14) thin line: one-line

 

a '2fer1' linked haiku   may 22-30 1999

so many oms

'om-wom-om' a painting from '80 'womtra'
i'm the she a nondomed hat chromed red
before greco-roma we roamed free
run off by spring peepers i'm homed in away from loam
doubtful romeo's romance woulda got writ with cnn around
a momentary lapse in judgment put the foreigner in a coma
as homely as gomer pyle watermelon seeds on my nightshirt
1st visit to the moma small world my art prof from oklahoma
haiku moment by any other name the fomenter's boomerang
homer's chromosomes or mcgwire's
homophobic the womanizer's only son
all those tomes on roman catholics where's mad o'hair
in omaha [etc] wom anatomy: cunctipotence
gomez on tv closest i'll get gnomes i don't know
not much in common alan lomax and perry como
another haiku just clitoridectomy and somali females
komban wa a handy greeting after cormorant fishing in aomori
momentum comes and goes i wonder if i've omitted anything

note
2fer1: over-all rhyme sound with 2 on each line

 

a '2fer1' one-line linked haiku    june 1-6 1999

behind a string

dirt farm where i farm dirt and flirt with worms
did we need to know dole's e.d. and outcome
profits and prophets of doom meet at 'doom'
deer and a newly-hired weedeater some flowers merely stubs
as the world swirls little girls trapped within tourist traps
after the wrestler's real death fall show business must go on
non-acceptance the acceptance of things as yet unknown to me
back from flowers at dusk into a dark house into a parked chair
we've been fooled contrary to popular myth re taboo in haiku
the crosses quarrel: public/private thirteen/fifteen
no lay-a-way it's nothing down no payment til august
ah to be deep in horse shit garden-aged of course
'i'm better at hello' streep tells the wrong man
everyone needs space to write her deeds
in between the big mistake that drove the stake
tomato plants fit to be tied as i undo the ties that bind
my brain unsettled until females regain our ancient mind
though nothing in nature's a freak of nature what ebb and flow

note
2fer1: over-all rhyme sound with 2 on each line

one-line linked haiku   june 8-11 1999

money talks

too much to chisel reagan's puss on rushmore
in the trash for plastic cards crook or rebel
'cash crop' where does it grow by the way
timmm-berrrrr the redwood off to nature-inspired japan
ball player pockets his balls eye on their market value
capitalist communists or vice versa or just 2 vices
doctor & i: . . . bottom line no it isn't yes it is no it
$billions here there soon add up to saving women & children
prostitution not the world's oldest profession malescholarshit
well who can we sue 'cussing-canoeist trial' begins
a fortune made on that made-up devil
entitled to food stamps yet can't do it
cyberspace 69% of sales 'adult' content
in a deep pit critics with reputations to live on
gee i wish i weren't rich and famous
no tax form since '83 no bomb bought no poor helped no road paved
so much dirt on my mind forgotten where i hid the mattress money
one bum to another what lives some of us won't trade for nothin

note
20m) cnn 6/10/99

the hiro connection

one-line linked haiku      june 13-19 1999
'Hokku and haiku have been written to congratulate, to praise, to describe, to express gratitude, wit, cleverness, disappointment, resentment, or what have you, but rarely to convey enlightenment.' Hiroaki Sato, ONE HUNDRED FROGS: FROM RENGA TO HAIKU TO ENGLISH, Weatherhill, New York & Tokyo, 1983.

one-line linked haiku   june 13-15 1999

to congratulate

you're doing the best anyone can in spite of vast clinton-haters
toward self-congrats uneasy in a what's-your-problem-girlie world
a governor's rethinking of life a killer wife's commuted term
authors of books which i throw across the room
better sooner than so late the medal for rosa parks
her viewpoint winnie begins to speak out

note
8m) howard zinn, 'a people's history of the united states';
susan brownmiller, 'against our will, men, women and rape';
susan b. pomeroy, 'goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves';
mary daly, 'gyn/ecology'

one-line linked haiku   june 13-15 1999

to praise

neglected garden better than it sounds asparagus
'marija finally an archeologist i can love'
how in the heck has this truck held out
overshadowed by disability not 'super' man's bright spirit
way back when the concepts of adobe and straw-bale houses
gay & lesbian pride month not rev drake: against the word of god

notes
4m) dr marija gimbutas; mm haiku from 'birdy the topless neolithic bird shevinity'
painting series 7m) christopher reeve 11) cnn 6/15/99

one-line linked haiku   june 13-151999

to describe

in the blue vw blackberry brambles touch the top and bend
even 'go-to-town panties' faded bottom earth on the bottom
bank statements in a haiku magazine mailer unbalanced
front porch freezer chairs ping pong table broken for years
rain-clean pond where i don't watch the world go by
reading glasses an ear piece up the other out & down

one-line linked haiku june 13-15 1999

to express gratitude

home decor: leaks yet a roof over the mess the stress
rain the pretties even the rocks and i will dance
mother nature how would i make it without you
mrs box 'you like pink don't you' the start into thinking beyond
performance artist who pulled a scroll of wisdom from her vagina
haiku mates the energy the time the space for other ideas

note
9m) carolee schneeman

one-line linked haiku   june 14-16 1999

to express wit

moments unkeenly perceived that fill our heads notebooks magazines
baum's mother-in-law's 'woman, church & state' courage heart brain
flag day freedom a local vfw burns a hundred 'old glories'
hard to get under a man of few words
heat humidity starts blackberry winter
alone i make sense to myself

note
3m) matilda joslyn gage's ideas suppressed 100 years including by the likes
of susan b. anthony

one-line linked haiku   june 15-18 1999

to express cleverness

too smart to retie a tie
japaneasy haiku
10 commandments house-commanded for school
baseball cards he ruined as a child now his new shop full
'down there' + 'home is where the heart is' = 'down home'
to control our minds they cleverly dub ru-486 'baby pesticide'

one-line linked haiku   june 16-19 1999

to express disappointment

as i seek untruths i find untrue gossip about myself
dd's frogs banished from the frog pond this spring
hardly prey/predator just shelion's 'time to feed the kitties'
not left in the flower the moment
the fourth mistake the fourth estate
man-made myths my apples and snakes nature-made

one-line linked haiku   june 16-19 1999

to express resentment

gored by gore: god's green earth
bible reader's guide add sexism to 'vsld'
nra its unrealistic name
'the man show' et al ad nauseum called 'testosterone alley'
mr religion tells women what's what can't fix christ's bride
not enough years left to express emotions or fix the erosion

note
4m) tv ratings

one-line linked haiku  june 16-18 1999

to express what have you

to tamper with only a bit of my land the rest mama nature's
cable co's young man now knows one old wom's views of male tv
ideas trampled by knee-jerking haiku cops and robbers
he's kept waiting while i get junk food
i wake up to email full of caring
idea: editors send sase for our poems

one-line linked haiku   june 14-16 1999

to convey enlightenment

healing vision the pain told off but good
at my croning the witch shapes her voice into ours
alley a rusty red rectangle
cezanne 'still life' my first jolt into two-dimensional space
things as they aren't thru the eyes of any female told or not told
fresh from little moments to 'breaking news' of a broken world

Raw Nervz Haiku 6:3 2001

 

two-line tanka by two: 4    june 21-23 1999

of dirt

in the middle of a lull's lull
only part of the garden watered the guilt part empty
in early gnits & nats or whatevers
is it hormones such lust for a bed of dirty earth
yarrow blooming i'm ready now to reverse
what kind of field is it that grows organic junk food
holes in my dr scholl's shoes
out of most stuff can't get the necessary cabin fever
still dry between a rock and a hard place
wiggling soil a well-fed mole after the well-fed worms
at dusk the grub in a shirt pocket
he sweeps and mops lots of nature from my kitchen floor
touch-me-nots begin to orange
my nosy eyes unable to see the turtle's underside
earth-sitting for a space
the heat how will i ever search africa for hominids
all around the maple its profile
easy to give flowers away but not the clinging soil
hot salty face by the little pond
not a thing to drink but spring water from the tap

one-line linked haiku   june 24-28 1999

grim realities and such

to write of grim realities and such in spite of haikuland
conspiracy in that blue wall of silence a broom in a room
'until death' no d-i-v-o-r-c-e the single pope's bad dope
chemical run-off and sewage in the sun
wilted vegetables priced to the hilt
first the white-male god squad
out the car window the ring goes a non-widow
idealized or hated we she's in art
the pedestals of ignorance on which we dance our lives away
he won't let go of his sperm after the abortion she's laid low
mitochondria dna our mothers once led and fed the tribes
oceans of emissions fawned-over pleasure boats & lawn mowers
'corporapetions and big busyness' a red tapeworm runs through us
i like fingers that moon-point more than grim hypes from haiku-types
of wetland and land-fill which will turn into the other one guess
all along the roadside drunken cans
'railway killer' a kid filled with abuse
bold discrimination against the old et al

notes
18m) so-called witch trials  

one-line linked haiku   june 28-july 4 1999

bright things

bright idea nature's evolution
reflected on the screen naked bulb
tho orange its name red-hot poker
after light rain iridescence of a feather on the pond
old-guarde: she's no longer haikuish mm: my poor 'mind' so dullish
a real hug from the seven-year-old and his big blue eyes
unable to sleep an email check in the dark two tiny green lights
bubbles on an old sponge in the late afternoon sun thru pines
firecrackers in the distance glint of pink as the trout leaps
mop against the house to dry mourning cloak
not many in the strawberry ice cream
beneath the cancellation a piece of canada
white ibuprofen tablet the heat
down the road american flag by a 'blackamoor'
agassi at wimbleton sun on his pate
'no-see-ums' on the beach at dusk coleman and cigarettes lit
dry brush i fear most in the mountains comfort in lightning bugs
behind these haiku the bright purple desktop pattern has to go

one-line linked haiku   june 28-july 4 1999

the heat

left-overs and garden onions
what have i become an enigma
a foreign art a misguided definition
'a heaven for' to distract us from nature
under yet grounded we dead-or-alive unwanteds
rumor of storms rumor of thunder just rumors
wisdom of a passionate buddhist after hours
elaborate farces the grail on pbs
heart tattoo on the hardened killer's kill
sleepy eyes and tomorrow's mist
i ramble on where i am
when mud-slinging was 'cide-free mud
an after-thought the males
web search not ready for myself
my little chickadee-dees respond
predicted rain here & now of someone else
none can claim king of our rolling hills
more heat those city slickers all het up

notes
17m) 1993 film 'a perfect world'
30m) after w c fields & mae west

a 'hardly anything' one-line linked haiku   july 9-11 1999

a hyphen

painted sign a hyphen between sno cone
imprint after the quickly-removed bra
i'm out of focus a 50s brownie snapshot
at a loss sloth's rainforest
the salt won't shake the heat
a pop as the bulb's turned on
another soc sec letter unopened
on an empty stomach kid food
a message too subtle to get
one of those unreadable 'ku meetings
what's the deal soccer even women's
torn out of our tree the black sheep
tonight as short as i want it to last
rain over the medium-size fan on low
i miss it spring dirt under my nails
open spirit a pared-down poet
'i want to be left alone' meant
waves above the blacktop

note
34m) greta garbo

 

one-linked linked haiku    july 13-16 1999

in all seasons

valley's humidity hangs unseen
society pond a poet leaps past
away a day pretties still pretty
overshadowed and in the shade cucumber vine
electricity & phone bills for a little life
spoiled now as i watch sumo wrestling with dd
i shiver from images of wood piles & kindling
under the hill man's link mine somehow softens
30 years is that dang flag still on the moon
will my son care or be like john
the only door that locks ajar
everything but a cave for the bats
even in these mountains the heat
the fancy: long 3rd a in appalachia
worn down to nothing special
not a lot of moon a non-seasonal reference
cezanne's mountain a deep place in my mind
unable to let go the linking mounds go on