fragment from a handheld device #8

(on the exquisite tortures

of public art galleries)

please

do not touch

the exhibits

fragment from a handheld device #7

See how high it jumps:
the blood
before it dies away

oyster

(fragment from a handheld device)

these accretions

stronger than the rock

to which they bind

fragment from a handheld #4

how bright and quick

we burn

such brisance

origami

these words
we fold into ourselves

from the broad sheet of all possible words.

these words
we unfold at night

on a tatami mat of  breath.

behind fragile
walls we fold
into each other.

Here.  Listen.

a thousand paper cranes

take flight -

.

more freeform haiku

.

your coin-operated hips

i have change in

my pocket

.

little spider

gives you something

to remember him by

.

though the wind

soughs through the boughs

it cannot blow this away

.

freeform haiku

making out on the beach

like teenagers

together coming undone

.

my body

speaks louder than i

i tell it hush

you tell me listen

.

feet walk one way

heart walks another

not stretched but grown

.

what continents we crossed

deserts and oceans below us

seen through small windows

.

before coffee

brave little muddlehead

.