*
long nights
of political discussions
the sun anyway

*

rocky shore
blunt tentacles of a green surf
anemone

*

spring concert
blossoms blown
from the trumpet tree

*

sheltering roots
of the old oak
box turtle dreams

*

restaurant receipts
the bitterness
of hotel coffee

*

irreconcilable differences
the black hole
between

 

Deborah P Kolodji is the moderator of the Southern California Haiku Study Group and has published over 900 haiku.  Her first full length book of haiku and senryu, highway of sleeping towns, is available from Shabda Press.