Haikus

HAIKUS

1
It warmed itself by
the flickering fingers of
fire and melted

2
Yolk broke in the sky
beaten by winter branches
sun, a scrambled egg

3
The greasy sky drops
the buttery red sun down
its blue faded shirt

4
Soaking in midnight
the tiny lights drain on a
black porcelain sink

5
The bikes whizzed by, their
tires spinning with
cartwheeling whiskers

6
The night sky is the
dark, dark attic of the earth
the ground, its basement

7
I sit astride the
beating sticks of equine legs
the great earth our drum

8
Ethereal clouds
the moon rides a piebald horse
across velvet skies

9
Too softly for sound
stars talk in twinkle language
chatting to the sky

10
Someone shoveled a
hole in the clouds and buried
the full moon alive

11
Gray presses against
the window leaning with all
its weight, wanting in

12
We ride life as if
it were an infallible
horse who cannot die

13
Every so many
years we grow up again so
we're always growing

14
Who's satisfied with
all the men she knows until
she's seen all her choices?

15
Some bugs are so big
they look like animals; like
miniature raccoons.

16
The racquetball makes
music to the walls and floors
as they squeak and thwack

17
He came in from the
cold and left it on the floor
ice off winter's cake

18
I slipped my foot in
and the shoe swallowed its tongue
my foot after it