tuesday haiku/ final haiku

Sound of rain falling
Dough rises, write down plans
Splash through city streets

a year in haiku
it is a flash in the pan
eat your heart out, babe

monday

sleeping on the air
sand, sun, sweat, inlet, clean then
drive through neon lights

when you wake up at
6:20 you have the whole
day, and spent it all.

sunday haiku

Walking through tunnels
Taking photos of the marsh
You, me, and the dog

crowded to bk
bring in new air/water plants
draw houses alaska

saturday

Stand over parkway
Into the bay, riding bikes
Sleep under the stars

you know sometimes you
just feel so happy to be
a part of the world?

thurs/fri

thurs:

in a moment of
safety or clarity, change
clothes, look down a shining pond.

yet again too late
repeat, push carts up myrtle
sleeping on the roof

fri:

last day here with sea
draw houses in reds and yellows
tuck stars in pocket

quick visit with car
sweet stories about your past
bright lights and wires

tues/wed

tues:

out on quiet streets
sit on someone else's steps
TV on the couch

drive down small sand roads.
big forest littered with ponds.
swim g r a c e f u l l y across.

Wed:

music expands time,
lay out and swim in and walk.
away, remember

almost made it there
walk down streets, talk on benches
insane freestyle

monday

sleep upright on couch
trees get cut down, three meet up
finally found home

day framed in walking
it's clear but there is debris
sun sets and stars start

fri/sat/sun

friday:

morning brings calmness

reminisce on the church steps

the impact's still strong

long strokes around pond
talk about a hurricane
think on housekeeping

saturday:

humpback whale morning
blow holes at three feet away
voluntary breath

NJ by 8
Up the stairs, set upon then leave
Last thought before sleep

sunday:

big winds whistles through.
white cloth billows in our hands.
for irene, goodnight.

Gutters gush water
Strong winds, sleep and read all day
Reminders of dreams

wed/thurs

wed:

the most stars stay put
dusty arrangements on blue
i'll keep looking up

Living carefully
We'll be playing live next week
Crawl through small window

thursday:

having your own ideas
those can fill the sky and make
yourself all your own

Hurricane coming
Take it slow, rain on the roof
Catching up with you

monday/tuesday

monday:

one heart shaped head board
create shelter on sand side
walk in to the wind

Another birthday
Keep in mind what we have learned
Walking in the rain

tuesday:

Check where it all stands
Make repairs and references
Disappointing change

long peaceful sleep here
while wind blows off the ocean
stars in the blue sky

saturday

Out the door by 6

Spend the day in the backyard

Instant connection

nine am car ride.
i'll take the backseat, jump in!
big swim big bay, sun.

friday haiku

you pull me closer
everything will be changing
so hold out, hold tight

Little by little
Fixing and changing our lives
Gone for an hour

thursday hi-coo

Pounding head, rushing
Across the street, accounts of trip
Be strong one more night

two interview day
feel stuffy in fancy clothes
L to the 1 train

wednesday

out of a dream silver
walking, sittin' on sidewalks
hold out, hold out, hold

5am call-off
Scrub dirt and glass, practice songs
Jolly on 14th

tuesday

Bad dream kicks me back
Dear nick: so sincere dear one
Such strength in music

nice and fast day pass
come home and you still exist
happy around friends

monday!

Time spans between trains
Start the day while others sleep
Half-floating, eyes close

let us let go, m
train to the next full stop
send mail to places

sunday

big rain pours down, through
think about waste of a night
it keeps on coming

up at midday sun
bloodwork denied, you'll get home
never felt so sure

saturday

no alarm wake-up
high places and low places
a disappointment

in and out of sleep
we will make it through this week
question our purpose

friday haiku

it's late when you wake
it's hot water and honey
it's walking uptown

Load 14 ft truck
Pressure pushes down and out
Wait but no results

thursday hi-coo

6th floor single room
The drip to kill your cancer
Happy birthday nan

welcome morning hi
love and kisses change happens
the day moves clouds part

wednesday sighcoo

somethings overlooked
my blanket is upside down
good email good news

Coffee on the roof
Honey brown, looming clouds, keys
Practice and collage

tuesday

anyone coming
covered in fog can
not be okay- true?

day passes and in
my room things are settling
country in bk

cook first meal in new
place, new kitchen, eat on the roof
breeze between us, talk

there is expanse in
between us, water travels
to many small lakes

Walk past the great lawn
Canvases 20 feet: black
Sun sets on brooklyn

monday

Make something to feel
Pack country life for brooklyn
Walk down myrtle ave

good morning collage
i'm moving up in the world
off the floor. thank you

sunday haiku

Separate the eggs
Up/down stairs look at my art
Swim across the lake

Festival's last day
Can't catch fish wit no bobber
Call out tomorrow

rainy day saturday

Slow, cozy morning
Up the stairs to paper homes
Under umbrellas


In wingdale beauty
Surprise and avoid panic
All for houses/home

friday

Billowing mushrooms
Ride to the end of the line
Shooting stars, forward roll

The sky is so far
From wingdale (the past) darkness
Look for bearded you.

thurs

i am so happy!
mountains and darkness. music.
other people too

Start at 10 (need time)
So many places to see
Practice, then reflect

wednesday highkoo

the Pastor Merrill
had the base ball all along
is the father too

6am pickup
Poison ivy, cats, dogs
Walk home through the rain

sunday/monday/tuesday

sunday:

first day 24.
morning we're becoming friends.
love/move to bushwick.

monday:

first morning bushwick.
added time and it adds up.
HEY! run-ins friendz.

Pulled over (broadway)
Brain-swelling scare (reaction)
night swimming (cold, dark)

Tuesday:

it is cold wake up.
A day that is a week- long time.
Sleep in and out of.

Bus, ferry, cab, truck
hardware, artificial plants
wake me when you're home

saturday sighcoo

Sunlight reflects strong
Plan, replan, tell memories
night sky in HD

quiet wake-up birthday
24 years later hey
i'm the same person

fri

all day i wait to:
get off train and into room
dark night stars hometown

wait 4 hours to
Start working, dead phone, delays
Meet up on church street

thursday hi-coo

songs from my bedroom
are the middle of a room
listen in greenpoint

shoulder to shoulder
make meaning in everything
you and me, Suzanne

There just must be some
Way have feeling again
Some way back on track

Broken pledge (one day)
Don't make deals with yourself if
You never keep them

Awoken by buzz
Erase these uncertainties
Music brings the truth

haiku

hey can you wake up?
dust in my eyes over bridge
gold houses and sleep

Gesso and hot glue
Sweatshop and comic book store
Wine with powertools

tuesday

so softly the light
call out, type essay instead
friends then pensive thoughts

i sit next to you.
what a nice day for bike rides!
dinner in taffee.

monday

many layers one
make one, ready for you/me
ride, drive, walk, talk, stay

Long wooden table
Digging through deep trenches
Finding your new home

How lucky it is
To spend the morning then night
With my two fav'rites

sunday haiku

wake up sleep wake up
preparing for a future
run onto night streets

House filled with fam'ly
Race down the slides, memory
Flip frogs, ice cream drips

saturday haiku

i watch shadows change
and think on alakanak
web cite maintenance

friday

Don't spread yourself thin
Taxi story, then shopping
Piggy-back ride home

it's hot when i wake
painting sunglasses water
times square movie air

thursday hi-coo

dear dearest my book
it's ready! let's pass judgement.
i'll pretend to know.

Locked out at entry
Build, sweat, home, dinner with friends
Listen to you pick

wednesday sighcoo

I don't want to leave
Cardboard houses, storyboards
Dreaming, time passes

cereal and milk.
paint flowers with children.
we span time & sleep.

tuesday

Off to sunset park
Palm trees and saw dust all day
Cravin' some haven

walk out together
a very l-o-n-g day with children
tom ze with family

monday hachoo

hey wake-up samson!
off on foot off on pedal
financial district

Hop in the truck to
Offload, type up interview
Nap, rain, so close now

sunday haiku

long morning alone
see sam, hospitality
you/i exchange words

Staple duvatine
Disassemble, pack it up
Pile in the van

saturday

living alone is
so great. muffin and cartoons!
feel small in city

Miscommiunicate
On set 10 to eleven
Chat roulette like whoa

fri

10:30 we leave
Sunburn and constructing space
Search for alcohol

today i am camp
sit at seaport, wave crashes
& don't make a move

thursday hi-coo

so, can't wake you up.
bruise left leg, walk across town.
feel ostalgia.

Morning light: white, clean
Nervous, no dough, listen, drive
Gold helmet bounces

wednesday sighcoo

& on time to work
& go home tired, meet-up
& walk bk streets

Linger through the heat
Two hours late: rush downtown
Cross-legged (old times)

haiku tuesday

i wake up early
& ew, it's hott in bk
still i love summer

I take your place and
Head to foot, heat hangs so thick
Guitars hum all night

MON

i'm so happy that
you're happy. another part
on the bus, ally.

So good to wake up
No work, music on the roof
Laundry, then big walk

sat/sun

sat:

wake, a room with you.
happy morning, look at carp.
nj drink, ocean

Fifteen minutes late

Buy in bulk pre-packaged food

I hope she was wrong

sunday:

Spend morning at home
Swim in the ocean, feel free
Under yellow lights

think, think, over think
we swim together with waves
talk, walk down the beach

friday

friday: 1st paycheck
walk backwards & sit in seats
& spend time with you

The past 2 years: done
We need to get happy and
See friends, meet people!

thursday

like talking with you
pause between words, out windows
don't wanna break <3

ev'ry morning should
Be so slow, so warm, then trains
Take us back and forth

wednesday sighcoo

cool room. no sheets on
bike lanes and breathing in/out
practice banjo/ draw

I can't believe it
Exit review, broken tooth
Finally found home!

tuesday

A card a message
Not sure how to read the signs
Walk, then sleep it off

touch cool morning air
go over the bk bridge
twice & don't think twice

4th of july monday

there is patient life,
it, tucked in at night with me,
so smile and wait.

Ride on trains and sleep
Spent the day with you (island)
Glad you're back (sorry)

haiku sunday

Tuxedo shirts, ties
Set up, serve, I never want
Costco membership

oh! oh my houses!
99 beautiful rise
tomorrow with you

saturday

all minutes awake
about 99 houses
a dedication

Waking up late to
Miss you more and run to trains
Backyards soul to soul

friday

Wake up and fall down
These days they're long but once home
What a good surprise

sing cheers, buy earplugs
solid sleep in h. valley
teach kids and talk loud

haiku thursday

waking up myself
happiness in waking up
and learning myself

Up zombie time land
At lunch first time we are real
Meet up sit on stoop

wednesday sighcoo

27 months
2 years south america?
miss the familiar

Good to have you back
Pretend not to care (too close
To the end to fight)

tuesday

anxious drive down here
settled in new room bk
nervous for future

pretend somewhere else
is waiting for my entrance
destroy and create

haiku monday

hold out, go places
& move-in day tomorrow
idealistic peace

Pressure on so much
Ten percent wouldn't keep me
Life over money

sunday

Wait til you get home
Work, music, oh afternoon
Air.conditioner

up stairs down stairs, stare
install all day maxon mills
try again next week

saturday sighcoo

i'm so proud of you
my drawings in museum
i love you suzanne

Morning at kaity's
Family, packing, feeling free
You ARE important

friday haiku

new plan for new life
pity party is over
gotta keep moving

So I said farewell
Could feel big but it feels small
Pan out lives on deck

thursday

so i got the call
big disappointment sets in
didn't get the job

Big disappointment
It really isn't; it was
Always there: face it

wednesday sighcoo

there's long morning raine.
windows and keys in brooklyn.
worry of phone calls.

Glue asparagus
Sleep one hour on f train
Talk about nothing

tues haiku

this dull brain needs light
shake it up, turn it over
apply for a change

all day walk around
sun burnt shoulders classon ave.
and two big windows.

monday

let myself sleep more
draw worry walk through the day
thank g. for sunlight

up late rush still late
work til quarter to nine then
work some how dull.

sunday haiku

3 buckwheat pancakes.
i am coasting on a bike,
outside life, worry

travel to family
walk and talk about our lives
now and what they'll be

saturday

drive to pearl river
clean/organize studio
CL room/share search

Up with the feeling
Work work scrub, mop, wipe away
Music until four

friday haiku

i'm up with the rain
5am self-reliance
99 houses

This is real, life, now
Bone and base aint worth nothin'
If they don't support

thursday

Leaving so early
Met a hannah, same bright eyes
Distance not worth it

wake up to worry
(i want this job and that life)
lesson for first grade

wednesday highkoo

6- 15 wake- up
long day inside my thoughts in
the city. go home

How; another day
Flew by with featherbrain thoughts
Use it or lose it

tuesday

reach to two o'clock
drive both ways over hudson
call back, still wanted

Don't be so distant
Through echoes and reflections
Keep your vision clear

monday

interview jitters
8 people ask 10 questions
why get so nervous

Yes, please let's meet this
Wednesday at seven pm
And write poetry

How much til its gone
We drive down to new jersey
Sleep on the way back

sunday haiku

hi, hello bad tea
last day in carbondale
three hour car ride

Star at Jesus Christ
Timesheets, dishes, photographs
Hip to hip to hip

fri/sat

friday:

drive to cooley road
the round table for writing
2am lake swim

pennslyvania.
it is weird here, with family.
long night late dinner.

saturday:

the great hounidi.
three parts and many, many laughs.
drive around look look!

roll out of warm bed
stand in line, stand, stand in line
scream in the silo

thursday

being an artist
(saving my life making things)
work everyday

Soaked through to the bone
Feels so good (sopping wet feet)
New jersey then back

wednesday highkoo

go up the mountain
trout fishing america
first swim in big lake

manic mania
time to get out of this hole
shh don't talk no more

tuesday

feel mixed up, crazy
certainly don't aim to miss
the usual things

All day long I dream
Strong, still to be, to feel so
Endless, infinite

monday hachoo

day off! YES YES YES
with banjo, sunshine, Wingdale
start making houses

Asian invasion
Magnifying glass, locket
Back to the same old

sunday haiku

like old times one bed
walk/run around the city
art will go places

Seven oh seven
Pressure near the J/M/Z
Good news, job hunt

saturday

Pay off this month's debts
Part ways to garden on 10th
Tribal music trance

loud wake up morning
hello bk sunshine
art parties, plumbers

friday haiku

no bike day, cold room
glad to come to nyc
friends from all over

float through the day time
downtown to get work (flashback)
very good manners

thursday

email apartments
hoping to get this settled
none get back either

You know there's nothing
The most perfect day in years
Breathe in big, deep sky

wednesday highkoo

it is humid and
i think don't think twice, because
it's alright (all right)

If you are zoned out
All day long, how can you get
Them wheels to start up?

tuesday

all alone, my art
keep working in the sunny
day, it's worth it all.

memorial haiku monday

i love warm summer.
where have all the flowers gone?
there are three good things.

time to get going
resumes and rejection
advice to strangers

sunday haiku

got a bike, banjo
family and friends, summer sun
now just a real job

fresh start to this day
trip to Governor's Island
walk home from the bridge

saturday sighcoo

i bought my banjo
i'm gunna learn my banjo
and play out all day

Hypersensitive
In a fog same as a hole
Let it all get good

look children there are
four horses in your front yard
say no, say yes, say

Translated train ride
Salt water, walking, looking
Jazz at train station

hicoo thursday

dear dearest let me
make a garden for us and
talk in tomatoes

Send me to greenpoint
This saturday I will look
A home for two months

wed

9AM bike ride
afternoon kindergarten
7PM yo

Didn't even hear
Chinese warehouse casino
Work on resume

tuesday

little river to
the blues, thinking forward and
squinting to the sun

Walk out of tunnels
See friends after one year's time
Fight for what is true

monday

familiar morning

listless in ritual pattern
day goes down to night.

Train sails (lost in words)
Forty minutes, in my room
What a trip you've had

sunday

happy to be home
my own bed and a clean mind
1 month then 2 months

Talking in circles
Museum walls, train farewells
Scared to say goodbye

saturday

Cherry tree arrived
In and out of rain, quiet
Walk through city streets

wakeup one oclock.
Rain off and on no beach day.
Sad friend hope stays on.

friday

awake to wonder.
Day in and out to city.
Hot wood vIII.

Wake up in new home
Plastic walls, ignore my words
Listen carefully

thursday

nod nod kiss kiss hi
thunder like rocks in a can
wander throughout life

Never trust the doubt
Shut it out, listen closely
Old friends, new places

wed

raining day off done
wasted time is not wasted,
poems for the night time.

Feverish, frantic
Decide here, now! Run to queens
On on on on on.

tuesday

when i woke up all
i wanted was to sit by
my window, write poems

it started today
stone by stone, new book, good friend
be here, present now

monday

ev'ry day:on, ON!
opening doors, pulling strings
Make it all gravy


misty morning fog,
talking is good for something,
feel moving forward.

sunday haiku

it's raining so hard
in the car we are moving
day with art and stares

The mind simplified
It is a terrible waste
Memory so strong

saturday

sedentary Sat.
application paper house.
tefl:: go places babe

write, re-write, discard
pretend we're entrepreneurs
so glad you came back

friday haiku

looks like it might rain

sunset 8:04 PM

up hills both ways home

they're engaged, oh my!
i bike and beat the rain home
cook/bake for family

so much traffic: tense!
nineteen tries yet not quite there
harmonica plays

thurs

No more flakiness
Its all or nothing- extremes
Need intensity

day with art ideas and
text message to outside world
my watch comes home (yah!)

wednesday sighcoo

wasp buzzes round me
weed out garden, get ready
then go stretch out spine

now your mouth cries wolf
the closeness of truth, of trust
won't you come see me?

still stings time to time
but, the hope, the desire to
be the change you want

tuesday

use calm voice with kids
long ride home rt. 22
come curl up baby

Missing you my dear
Better when you're near crazy
Fever pitch brain-drain

monday

the days are warmer
my pink skin is coming off
long bike ride by farms

Find a place, a space
Don't look back, don't hesitate
Its now or never

sunday

finished making books
spending money i don't have
don't make excuses

missing my dear friends
let's work toward better futures
be here with me now

even if it can't
will we ever have the chance
to be who we are?

blah blah blah blah blah
shhh shh shh be more quiet
its time to listen

it is time to wait
or is the time to act now?
make a decision


driving around roads
bathe buddha on his birthday
love to mother, mom

saturday

lost in rush of thoughts
walk in rain with a wool scarf
save little orange efts

Eleven hours
Five month's mess, look for temp space
Blonde on blonde on blonde

fryday

Squint through blinding light
I'm wide awake, its morning
Focus on 3 goals

lost papa's watch
repeat: i lost papa's watch
bring back good fortune

Kept goals in mind but
More urgent to act than think
Don't act dumb, but ACT!!!

hicoo thursday

behind yet again
so po', can't afford the -or
well, how does he dance?

shop til you drop girl!
draw in draw out, you and me
span-time! in a chair

mid week haiku

hold out for something.
fold paper, cut paper, sew.
edition of ten.

after ten year's gap
so much more to say, so good
you're not second-rate

at noon two phonecalls
on break, between raindrops
your voice (wash away)

wednesday haiku

we all dream at night
can you please be quiet, please?
let's take a trip out

When I think of it
Endless possibilities
I still feel the same

monday

wake up hopeful light
aching joints, inside legs burn
long day in forth grade

Another week comes
You may shrug me off but I'll
Wait til you're ready

sunday haiku

kayak down great swamp
lunch, art, talk, like good old days
my worst sun burn, ouch

Sunl shines through bridge planks
Ducks, paddles, navigate swamp
Work like we used to

saturday

buckwheat pancakes, fork
up and look! finally blue trail
don't fake your life, k?

be here and act now
basic instincts on the trail
plan future places

haiku friday in the same house

Over in one blink
Sitting next to you (that pull)
Maps, drawings, rail trail

kids, math, road, bike, food
getting home ready for kim
clean house and span time

thurs

call that school again
never calls me back, so i'm
with forth grade all day

Gravy from here on
Even the shit, let's make it
Gravy (if we can)

wednesday haiku

doctor's office Gown.
sitting paper on paper
until it's over!

In dreams we are close
Don't think you're the only one
Please please be patient

tuesday

Feel immense today
Its not a bad attitude
Mosquitoes bite legs

school or false alarm
yoga, photos, mail, sunshine
cocoon of warm air

monday

reflect on friendship
misunderstandings stay home
back to the routine

St. Francis woodcut
Everything you share always
Brings back hope (thank you)

sunday haiku

two hours out land
my own country home most dear
east west north south or

It isn't too late
I'll always be here for you
Erecting altars

fri/sat

friday:

Study until 4
Second time, meet hannah, go!
Wrap rock in cotton

strange waking somewhere
a turtle walk, talk, collect.
go to Liberty

saturday:

I'll keep it so close
Fog, music, we're not welcome
Champion athlete

When I was 12 I
Wanted to be a poet
Walk on the backroads

hicoo thursday

Sleep past 7
Blurry but then it gets clear
Should we stop this now?

my backwards drinking
parking lots, spills, dj, dan
folded money heart

wednesday highkoo

Budget meeting yuck
Zoned out, found your name, left class
Ride scooter down 5th

towards the end of day
and time on route 22
meet art. and my bike!

Tuesday bluesday

The feeling so strong
Came back, happy just because
No time for sorry

you are miles away
getting projects together
send into the world

monday

De-rail your life and
Clean up the debris, feel the
Warm sun on your face

david copperfield.
my language is the source of
misunderstandings.

sunday haiku

Walk over the bridge
Eyes closed, learn to trust your feet
Sun warms my eyelids

i love sentences
wrapped in neon lights, billboards
they seem so profound.

saturday sighcoo

Wasting away time
Practice, practice, study hard
Wasting away time

all this mystic rain
is beautiful to sleep to.
it is a current.

friday

Why didn't you come?
Will you come here tomorrow?
Dancing in the dark

eyes come apart for
looking over the mountains
my little town, down

hicoo thursday

To feel so anxious
Why waste the time? Make nine drinks
Meet you at Ridge Street

fill my eyes with stars
and smile inside my heart
good things will come soon

wednesday highkoo

Finally on time
(Almost) each day goes by oh
Much much too quickly

In the morning ducks
stand on the floating log in
pond and I think on...

tuesday

Waxing and waning
Like the moon: not always seen
Yet is always there

ideas change the world.
and my ideas are changing.
perception is all.

monday

Heard myself say no
Imitation, ice, bottles
Warm rain, the garden

students don't wanna learn
so what can the teacher do?
don't students wanna learn?

sunday

feels so good to know
cities, streets i don't live on
sunday morning light

nathan coley might
be my artist soulmate, here
thinking in circles.

saturday sighcoo

Work in morning light
For your birthday, quiet time
I need to see you

weeding: making rooms.
the sun shines, 60 degrees
for sweet peas and herbs

f haiku

Another week goes
Phony good luck, piss away
Talk through the morning

an outfit crisis.
an hour and turns in the road
under great blue heron

hicoo thursday

Took a leap today
"Life will go on somehow, right?"
It will, I promise.

sleep til nine, clean house
plant 16 asparagus
draw til ten, drive home

wednesday highkoo

Head feels upside down
Let yourself go a little
Goodbye cowardice

too cold for April.
frogs assemble sing verses,
I wear winter coat.

tues haiku

sore throat, ride with dad
why not take a risk? life's short
goodnight, we'll find peace

tan raincoat hood drops
the basement with high windows
belly of a boat

mondays

two books cut in piles
water whistling away
walk the shoulder home

Wake up with panic
Oh no love, you're not alone
Fresh start (its easy!)

sunday haiku

i make lists all day
yoga, blue sky, banjo, poems
i am glad you called

Why have fears when this
Life is what you make of it
Look ahead (not back)

Keep the noise down low
It eats away all the hope
Hope is not foolish

Where do we come from?
What are we? Where will we go?
Such confusing times

Thank you for talking
Serenity, my best friend
It will get better

saturday

wake-up the mountain
look down on the towns, (sigh/sing)
count to one hundred

Plastic breathes (in, out)
Music on the roof, sunlight
Spraypaint in basement

fryday

The night blends into
Day after day after day
Wood glue, mess, farewells

One man's ceiling is
(falling but the air stayed warm)
another man's floor

thursday hi-coo

We should enjoy youth
We won't be young forever
We're not that young now

yellow lights inside
i write my haiku to you
as you send yours off

wed

headache waking-up
kids & birds & sun & naps
there is so much left.

Could barely wake up
Good bye seems like its too soon
Thank god that you're here

tues

so many birds lately
and what would it be like to
have hallow bird bones?

Two sets of flowers
Not ready to say goodbye
Night caps talk talk talk

monday high

Push pull back and forth
We haven't gotten it right
But I won't give up

getting serious:
move the garden into sun
and warm up the earth

haiku sunday

it's still cold outside
i have been thinking so much
"gotta have a plan"

We need to just rest
Worry makes life go so fast
And yours is now gone

saturday sighcoo

Amazing grace is
So hard to find. I once was
Lost, now further lost.

settle back in sun
the basement is filled with fish
i wanna learn banjo

friday haiku

some nights don't rest well
Its just too much, I am done
Music and chopin

nest outside window.
losing touch with morning dove.
ducks stand on one leg.

thurs hai

Up so early, oh!
All of this is just nonsense
Wine and dine all night

dear dearest up so
school all day and sun is out
drawing, drinks with dan

wednesday

Surprised to see snow
Somehow it feels stronger now
Didn't want to leave

half day turned full day
snow falls lightly and ignored
draw to make deadlines

tuesday

Wake up cold so down
Death head but your eyes still see
Black fire sees true

how are you able?
hug your shoulders, rock back and
sand and whale-shaped rocks.

monday

Day started so rough
Tears and stress, just forget it
Sitting on the stoop

second day of spring
snowing all day, geese fly over
school, home and dirt road.

sunday

Wake up early, work
Sister Carrie, Prohibition
Wasteful cab ride home

no mercy yoga
mismatch outfit up mountain
clean house feel tired

saturday

wake up perfect house
keep windows open all night
get cold close up tight

Life goes by so fast
We won't remember dying
We don't recall birth

fri

wake up, went to school
beautiful day for basement
the frogs are out, cheep

Throwing up at work
I can't take any more down
Silent. Stare at moon.

thursday

Be still, be quiet
An end brings a beginning
Spring comes on Sunday

day off think of you.
no coats, no more coats, sunshine.
keep you for yourself.

wednesday sighcoo

North-bound train at 6
In borrowed clothes, soaking wet
Walk off the bad day

rain drops in my eyes
a wild imagination
it's better to live [then to die]

tues haiku

Sleep through garbage trucks
body on cart, fever breaks
One more night at home

thank g. for sunrise
you live life like it's your life
every day matters

monday

my teeth itchy hurt
made a commitment today
where is it going?

So many questions
Ocean Grove, reassurance
Shakey hands, now sleep

sunday haiku

wake feel sick, moving
to take bus, ferry, subway
apt. 4b

drive down to jersey
Last rites, your poor shaking hand
Tear apart your gift

saturday

go two museums
the city is a postcard
walk down avenue

Sun through the window
Reach end of pier and Mike's Spot
Worrying too much

friday

Japan: the earth shook
Midtown, downtown, Brooklyn bound
Wake Theresa up

hot to cold wake up
move in between raindrops too
& span time with friends

thursday

It will never matter
Wood and paint and dirty schools
Feel nothing no more

keep hopes high and low
and getting ready to go
tomorrow's future

wednesday sighcoo

the bruise is healing
don't want this brain anymore
always half asleep

i got a letter.
my lily of the valley.
found gladedale.

tues haiku

(He) must take you there
New York's full of crazy folks
Screaming on platforms

write one poem a day
one hundred crunches daily
and everything else

monday hachoo

Waiting and waiting
Feign fanciness (put on airs)
Mayor makes mistakes

getting ready now
get a job and move again
reach past life limits

haiku sunday

Voices through curtain
morning seems another day
taxes downpour spill

belly of a boat
as the rain falls on my ft.
& i write for you

saturday sighcoo

he has both his arms
in the picture he smiles
i walk on back roads

Take a long warm bath
Paint kitchen counter, glue maps
Emergency room

f haiku

Gallery walk-through
Demands make plans get cancelled
Deconstruct. Construct.

first five syllables
can never explain enough
when he has no legs.

haiku "to do" thursday

have to stop waiting
for the weather to get warm
got to free your mind

Always be hungry
Don't float through life, be alive
Fight for what you want

wednesday

Plastic bags, barbed wire
Dream of never coming back
Hold, can't feel the cold

keep sleeping, sleep more
trying to shake the sickness
beating it, sleep more

first day of march, tuesday haiku

Height draws blood to heart
Fever dreams, peeling fingers
Warmed by the March sun

sickness creeping in
insert all symptoms here, now
so march marches on

mon h

Wish you slept longer
Sickness shortened reunion
Lay down, water cleans

i am so tired
whole day of waiting inside
the grey river rush.

sunday haiku

Long sleep noon wake up
Staten island walk, rising
Lots of food and drink!

Wine every day
Call 112 (mom's advice)
One more day for pals

saturday

Music is next door
dosa and off to redhook
photos friends puppy

Breath sweetly sour
We will find our way (we must)
"Suzanne" "Marianne"

friday

grey morning rain falls
mid-day poems, birthday friend pile
sausage music plays

wake up to wander
icey water road- go to
city for Beach House

thursday

Found blood oranges
Had the tickets all along
Secretly listen

what can I do, make
for someone who has no legs
world should be better

mid week haiku

Morning brought quiet
Bring kinetic noise to rest
Did she recall me?

mind what you eat and
take vitamins, exercise
better stick to it!

Tuesday bluesday

do damage, do worst
inversions and credit cards
still so cold outside

Jealous, gloomy day
Everything off, nervous mess
All over nothing

president's day haiku monday

beautiful room world.
mix ingredients: corn bread.
keep purpose all days.

Sleep for half the day
Snow again, cook, silly girl
Truth is good to hear

sunday haiku

cutting, bitter cold
try to fold in half, body
lonely this and that

Morning real estate
No time, late as usual
Haircuts and farewells

sat

trying to plan and
feel the sun from behind clouds,
stay motivated

Afternoon light shines
Snow flakes fall between buildings
Dancing, then bad news

fri

Fire on the roof
Dreamt all day of seashell teeth
Brown paper on light

big open fields, cool rain
expanses to fill beauty
daydream of homesteads

thursday

In school scraping tape
Petting the rattus rattus
Empty beach houses

remember i moved
to know all the seasons and
understand the wind.

wednesday sighcoo

Someone's life or death
Bidding for joshua tree
Not a life, just breath

surgery removes
one eye and hopefully pain
imagine her sight

tuesday

think about my friends
turn to johnny panic and
the bible of dreams

tucked in seaside cliffs
seashell teeth, monasteries
clean on hands and knees

monday

waking to a dream
gusts of wind, sun, melting snow
just barely made it

thirsty all day, gulp
on some kind of edge, ahhem
small aches and pains, ouch

date with dr. dog
so i don't feel sad myself
while great wind carries on.

sunday haiku

fly kite on the roof
let it grow, let it last, please
eyes open, hold hand

no mercy yoga.
dry throat. over the mt
to disappointment

saturday

Fingers like seashells
Plasitic tubes, tears, snowflakes fall
Hold tight, say goodbye

i've never met you
i've looked at your two-story
wishing best for you

friday

i want a different.
let everything change and stay.
now i want difference.

if you could carry all
your idols inside mussel shells
who would be chosen?

Not one thing matters
Not the way the pressure seems
To take air away

thursday

i want to do drugs
climb a mountain, go swimming
stay up three days straight

look into sunshine
hurray: mochi and ipod
keep pathways open

wednesday sighcoo

Chunk of weave on snow
Work takes over life, why work
When she is dying?

outside my windows
feel tall and breath evenly
all the wild birds feast

Tuesday bluesday

Maybe I'm too short
And ambition floats above
My head (out of reach)

2 phone calls to wake
more snowing! no school today
spend day spending day

mon h

beautiful morning
it is happening again
cross out word by word

bad omens, reverse
thinking about things i love
get post & phone call

sunday haiku

Wake feeling stupid
Hills, ice, medieval hallways
Car rides, hospitals

small trouble sleeping
until morning comes. sunny,
not disposition.

sat

all morning watching
snow turn to rain, pound window
frames, blur of vision

Wake, talk to sister
Black out words, conspiracies
Martinis and sleep

fri

In early to leave
Supplies, complaints don't matter
You're doing better

the sun, it rises
the trees are crystal with ice
no notice, it set

thursday

two tall greyhounds penned
infection's in all organs
numb the night away

day day day day day
don't know how the day passes
night night night night night

wednesday highkoo

looking for work stinks
sheets of ice, ice falls, streets flood
talking politics

another day, rain.
and all night icicles drip.
ice up tight tonight.

tues

blisters on my hand
three weeks to change behavior
work work work work work

when i wake up, look
and i am the exact same
when i fell asleep

hi february!
this year is so much better:
i'm making something

monday hachoo

last week made a pact
(with myself) most of the day
this week nothing's changed

wake up bed cloths smooth
around me, sun rises around
nice day with third grade

sunday haiku

2pm morning
Off to the bus to the boat
Music, snow, then sleep

finally yoga morning-
lookout you and look out me
car ride down new roads

saturday

Four people, one bed
My view of the world broadened
Wasting life drinking

wake up to wonder
begin work on art website
draw in black and white

friday haiku

i am a floater
snows all afternoon; nothing
art is not for sale?

Wake up saturday
Four people, one bed and I
Don't remember how

Ps: after a long week
Or short, hard work or no work
Straight gin will kill ya

thursday

Buses suspended
barricaded by snow wall
cross out all but "sex"

OH MY GOSH snowy
be with the first grade, hold ground
first (picture) in weeks

wednesday haiku

Temples don't matter
What you do and what you don't
Why tell me I'm wrong?

pulled skin off my thumb
danced in my room to music
washed and combed my hair

haiku tuesday

Bells, sleepy good-byes
Spin too many plates, they fall
Inspired to "be"

5:27
school closed 8:57
now, draw and listen

monday hachoo

So much ice and snow
Work until seven fifteen
Talk with our souls

deep sleep, no dreaming
ice on the inside my window
no sleep, driving home

sunday

Sleep for half the day
Spray, color, silly outfits
Backward heading home

tidy, put out food
make space for all the people
chit'n'chat, party

saturday

House burned down, come back
Cold limbs, hammer, nails, headlights
Toothpicked elegance

bake cookies, make pie
bye! encyclopedias
rural we post signs

snow day friday

not enough to stay
the fire went out, its gone
shape up or ship out

four to eight inches
during which clean house, tuck in
night time dinner, dine

thursday

kindergarten school
feel like creating something
walking home to sing

this path has no heart
so much time spent on nothing
save a little soul

No more saying. Do.
I don't give a shit about
Anything at all.

wednesday highkoo

slept so well. loud mouth
(can this girl ever listen?)
find something to feel

can't do it, sorry.
make soup and clean drawers while snow
stops, so record song.

tues highkoo

so soon wake-up to
icy roads and puddle lakes
making progress, slow

sheets of ice, slide, sink
when, when will you be landing?
don't ever settle

fri/sat/sun/mon

friday:

Wake up art teacher
Easy to see how trees have
sprouted from mountains

7:30 call
So much to do, perfect timed
Train, pick-up, spilled wine

sat:

morning spent friends
deciding what to do now
zebulon protraits

middle, slow morning
sundown, collage, ice skating
(psych!) scissors and glue

no haiku sunday:

double haiku martin luther king jr monday:

Sink or swim you sneak-
Ee devil sink or swim the
End is near throw your

Dream of ringing harp
And angels wings friends on
Their way. Sunny day

Learning to listen
More than ears are needed
Become quiet: hear

Step out into day
Familiar places we'd go
Music, roses, snow

thursday

day with second grade
it is nine degrees at night
drive across state lines

Days go by so fast
Skyline red, reflecting sun
Work until bedtime

wednesday highkoo

18 inches of snow
draw houses and begin igloo
yoga/ apple pie

Feet sink into snow
Gutters dangle icicles
Stories from London

haiku tuesday

Child statistics
Wait, wait, produce, artists come
Pray for a snow day

wake-up blood all over
no work, yes yoga, and errands.
drawn in black, listen

haiku MONDAY

let's call it: no call
make piles of old artwork: burn
i learned from old art

NOW MAKE MORE
MAKE BETTER

So unproductive
Ghosting, ears pop, the sun sets
Many silent words

sunday haiku

i love everywhere sun
spent a day spending a day
dreaming of you two

Ten am, breathe through
One half of nose, good enough
Patient while face fear

saturday

beautiful grey snow
dead snow makes it hard to breathe
working on a plan

Open door, fresh cold air
Solitude, gardens, laundry
Head throbs, up too late

snow day friday

Snow day, foggy head
Illness spoils friends' surprise
Grateful for their love

oh my gosh snowing!
sit up in bed and some tea.
soo lazy today.

thursday

woken up cold day
shop all day long, oh brother
then i draw all night

Morning shopping rush
Cover tables, jo beth prints
Loud noises repeat

thursday

woken up cold day
shop all day long, oh brother
then i draw all night

Morning shopping rush
Cover tables, jo beth prints
Loud noises repeat

wednesday highkoo

called in, get ready
reading teacher k-2.
it is kim's birthday!

your knees to my back
escape, groggy music time
friends, family, love

tues highkoo

wake up so dizzy

early doubts fade, sleepwalker

quiet sincere night

can't fall asleep, cruel
daydream: living with best friends
one year of yoga

monday hachoo

Tucked you in then left
Can't give me hope with no hope
Search for something more

Sleepwalking through days
Over before it began
Sore throat, winter blues

no call: day of rest
clean closet engrossed maytrees
stencil, go places, paint!

sunday haiku

Sleep in the middle
Walk, walk, rain in Bryant Park
Home, then turn around

spent months missing friends.
enough to make me wanna stay,
sanctuary weekend.

fri/sat

friday: nye

Meet in East Village
Dance! Forget the year that's passed
Be glad, not selfish

Sporadic wake
Board train avoid eye contact
Love to all my friends

saturday: 2011

one, zero one, one-one
late breakfast, leisurely walk
quiet lull before friends

first day of the year
peaceful healing day with pals
make plans with poor Clare