Recent Published Haiku and Senryu

These short poems were published in Presence 65, 2019.
This haiku from Presence 64 was shortlisted for best in Issue:

evening's end
the jangle of door keys
in his voice

This tanka will be part of my Die Moldau series

precipice
watching the rapids
cascade
my life's becoming
a roller coaster

And these senryu/haiku were also accepted:

carpe diem
a blackbird marshals
the morning star

first crimson leaf
testing the latest
shade of lipstick

old miner
the lines of lode
traced on his face


These short poems were published in Presence 66, 2020. 

scent of cloves
a gamelan answers
the frogs' chorus

starry night
he dips his paintbrush
in argent

awakening
to life around me
a child sleeps
on a tattered sari
beside an ice cream stall