Gleaners

Harvest Moon --
its bright light
reflects off
their bent backs
gleaners

In Remembrance -- 9/11

Pain, unrelenting

From twisted metal

From falling cinders, ashes

Seared  deeply in our hearts

 9/11

Morning coats & medals

in somber morning coats or /  festooned with medals/  their folly,
 war/ lies buried in rubble

Hiroshima

Huddled together

Friends

In life and death

Two classmates

Hiroshima

the weight of water 2.0

Water/ it wears mountains down / to small pebbles/ later to be pitched/ carelessly by children.

weeds and cracked sidewalks
of a neighborhood
you once called home
now so forgotten
even by you

Sparrow's riffs

a sparrow perched
on an upturned shopping cart
regales its audience
with its clattering riffs
without taking a bow