While looking through old notebooks and teaching materials I came across some Haiku and American sentences jotted down that I did in 2012.
On Leaving my Dentist's Office on High Street, Brattleboro, VT
Taunted by impermanence three strangers stand
By the side of the road contemplating the sadness of animals
Cat run over
American Sentence Version
Taunted by impermanence three strangers huddle around cat road kill
Dream
Furry animals shiver together while Buddha comforts us
American Sentences
My Mother's sad face returns to me in the soft snow I didn't notice
BREATHE the monk Philip said to me when two phones rang at the same moment
Haiku
The old poet sat with me on the cement stoop
Early morning coffee in Boulder
Yelling caw caw back to the crows above
Snow plows scrape ground
Harsh words uttered grate tender
Phantom enemies
The red haired young man
Hates me like so many others
Forgive me, son
