“Up the Mtn” book excerpt #198, available on iTunes or on Blurb.com

Another example of shahai & jikuzo-shi from my book entitled JIKU, available on Amazon & Blurb.Com

woodcutters shelter

under a gnarled pine      fire warms

Motoyama Soba

Another example of jikuzo-shi poetry from my book entitled JIKU, available at Amazon & Blurb.com

musical medicant?

enticingly crisp sounds

playing in the snow

Woodblock print by Hiroshige

Up the Mtn #15, available on iTunes, Blurb.com, & ISSUU.Com

so little time

so bright, ineffiecent burn

ripened beyond

burnt wicks way to long

life's wax bleeds from this candle

Another JIKU excerpt, an example of Jikuzo-shi, available on Amazon & Blurb.Com

KAWABIRAKI

Ephemeral

Chiaroscuro

Sky bridge xing

#177 from Up the Mtn, available on iTunes, Blurb, & ISSUU.Com

stained by pitch& sap

my hickory handled axe

splitting wet firewood

Up the Mtn #205, available as a physical or ebook on Amazon, ISSUU.Com, and Blurb.Com

Saigyo's Creek spilling

into Basho's Pond, Buson's paintings

flakes, blossoming in me

A jikuzo-shi haiku, and excerpt from "JIKU".

A jikuzo-shi form of haiku

hanging blossoms

            inquiring      a fanned facade

                                          faning ignorance

(A Hiroshige woodblock print)

A jikuzo-shi & honkadori haiku, and excerpt from "JIKU".

A form of jikuzo-shi & honadori haiku

streaming throngs

drifting perfection      crests

foaming white      capped

(A Hokusai wood block print #74 Travelers climbing a Mountain path, 1835-6")

#194 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.com, & ISSUU.Com

sinking cinders

ash flakes floating downstream

wildland forest fires

#204 from "Up the Mtn", available on Itunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.com

spring descends

atop chrysanthemums

cascades of pink      blossoms

Another "JIKU" book excerpt availabel on Amazon & Blurb.Com

(grateful) transcendence

          (moonlit) cherry blossoms floating

                                               "this other world"

  

An excerpt from "JIKU", available on iTunes, Amazon, & Blurb.Com

(An edited edition)

Gales mash root rot

autumn's needles cry       in fall

breeze      leaves      trunks prostate

on a forest floor

shrill silence  .  .  .  autumn's fall  

#238 from "Up the Mtn" available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com

#171 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.Com

pale flue smoked moonlight

tree trunks envelpoed in . . .

white ephemera

#165 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com

thunderous booming

piercing crackles      lightning

swollen pregnant clouds

birthed on a Mtn side

divine intuition

#133 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.Com

deep in the forest

my hovel      my hermitage

healing seclusion

nature's divinity

continues on and on  .  .  .  And on

#140 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com

#65, from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.com

waxing      waning

years teeming    flowing with time

rivers    fjords    oceans

bodies evaporating

clouds drooling all about me

#175 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com