this is my favorite of eight haiku written yesterday while waiting for a very close friend to arrive after a long time apart. i'm posting them together as i'd rather not see them separate:


old addictions known
bring talk habits' future-fold
sipping mint all night
                                                      our soulful laughter
                                                      echoes over ego walls
                                                      sparring in the rain

racing over hills,
time drives faster than us.
stormclouds green and red.

                                                     Quan-yin sways there still
                                                     while Dutch is chasing cars.
                                                     timeless family love

introduced, embraced
the dinner table bonds us.
citrus on the greens.

                                                   precious notes on fire
                                                  abandoned on route to class,
                                                  impossibly found

solace weeks reveal
being generous of heart.
crevice filled of soul