Haiku from the past

My parents' computer is dying. Instead of investing in a hard drive, I'm doing the cloud thing and just uploading stuff I'd rather save to either Facebook or Flickr or here. Haiku I wrote around 2002 with some revised in 2006. Apologies in advance for their quality. 


turning the corner
a narrowing of the eyes
neither sun nor wind

feet shift under ass

glance around an vacant room [2006: glance around a lived-in room]

she nods openly

three generations

so much unsaid, yet there’s love

her mother’s mother

steaming wonton bowl

tokens of edible peace [ 2006: lips unravel spicy peace]

“I’m so glad you came!” [ 2006: tongues can burn two ways]

boxes ungotten

tape from previous tenants

never saw the roof

empty e-mailbox

I’m so bored I sigh slowly [ 2006: bored so bored I sigh slowly]

and twirl in my chair

lots of allergies.

ten minutes to beautiful.

tag lines and you’re it

stress and tapping toes

rub a sleeping arm awake

back unhunched   breath stretch

trappings of a god

lover of my soul reach out

show me the good time

2006:

chop the snake in half

pull it off her swallowed leg

the stories we hear

two umbrellas up

facing different ways home

kisses on the cheek

thirty winters passed

cynicism and suspense

my soul is closer