Melted Leopard 2-23-2010

raindrops hollow through
the pollen dusted puddle
a melted leopard

Really Good Hair, 11-13-09

Snowmen are not bald.
They shave their heads because they
Think it's really cool.

Everyone's Burning Breakfast, 10-15-09

Everyone's burning
Breakfast this morning in
Honor of Halloween.

Haiku on the Big Picture, 10-11-09

NASA shot the moon.
And the moon would not respond.
Let's apologize.

Familiarity, 9-7-09

sometimes you meet it
at someone else’s potluck;
your own tupperware

The Clam, 7-9-09

There once was a satisfied clam
Who had trouble when trying to plan
Her husband would say
"We'll be late for the play!
Are you happy?" and she'd say "I am."

Holiday Haiku 2008

Christmas is a beach
a really, really big beach
let us all dig it

Fall Haiku 2008

looking at the world
through pumpkin-colored glasses
kind of hard to see

For Ove

In general I'm no Ove Ofteness
My opponents can hardly be soft to this
My rhythm's so off
It keeps sailing aloft;
You can't dance but perhaps you
Can cough to this.

The Summer Fires, written 8-23-08

after the big fires
finally the smoke is gone
I missed my shadow

Holiday Haiku for 2007, written 12-8-07

an impudent year
insouciant, rude, very dry
but what a finish

History, a short story by Carol Denney, 1-10-07

I waited outside in the morning in the dark and I saw it, the same sunrise as exactly this time last year. I knew then that it was true. This year is history. Should I tell someone? Should I let someone know? Or should I wait, and just let it unfold, day by day, until someone else meets my eyes and I know that they know, too, that it’s really last year. All over again. Just like before. Then we’ll shake our heads. Again.

Holiday Haiku 10-15-06

ceramic santas
sitting in a discount bin
where is my hammer

Holiday Haiku 2 12-22-06

hey, beautiful heart
let's change the world is to-
morrow good for you

The Shoes 9-28-06

for Michael Morgan and the gang

if I had to choose…
I’d rather have you chew my shoes…
I may not have a lot to lose…
but I don’t really mind the shoes

and if you have to chew my hat…
or if you have to stomp it flat
and use it for a welcome mat
I guess I could get used to that

now if you have to chew the car
and sink your teeth into the tire
and tear the pillows all apart
I don’t think it would be smart

but if you have to chew my shoes
it won’t really light my fuse
I won’t really get the blues
over the shoes

Airplane Haiku, 11-22-04

snow on the mountain
soft reflection of almost
casual moonlight

the plane has landed
the people are excited
here come the cell phones

Abu Ghraib, 5-7-04

Rumsfeld was sorry
the gorilla surgery
led the evening news

The Shoes, 12-24-03

A woman walks in the showroom selling shoes.
Five dollars, she says, size seven and a half.
It's Christmas eve and raining lightly, so gently it falls like snow.

Art Piece, 7-7-02
back stage in the mirror
my hairstyle represents
a futile attempt
to impose order
on a chaotic world
it is an art piece
and it is done

Haiku for a Poetry Reading, 1-20-02
on and on and on
whining and then more whining
please let me die now

Worse Than Anthrax, 1-19-02
a sudden urge for peanut butter
I'd never had before
a sense that I could almost smell peanut butter
almost taste it
its obstinance, its insouciance
its petulance, its flirtatious nature
it was insidious
clearly the work of terrorists

On Bart, 11-3-01
why must I sit next to the gal
who is reading her poems aloud
she reads them so sweetly
though most indiscreetly
and frankly, the poetry sucks