Freshman chem lab

at the miniscus
measurements taken
carefully



freshman chemistry students making sure that their test tubes have the right
amount of solution.

Metronomic

uncurling, curling
a cat's tail movements
quite metronomic

November 11, 1918

breakfast still rumbles
but no other guns are heard
Armistice morning.

denounce Female Genital Mutilation!

a razor slices
what cannot be replaced
red flood of tears, blood

In praise of Avogadro's number (today's Mole Day -Oct 23)

his number (sadly)
doesn't measure hot air
from politicians

Freedom!

Article Nineteen
applies everywhere without
exception

In honor of las Damas de Blanco of Cuba and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Laura Pollan -- Damas en Blanco

she terrified them
even as she lay dying
Viva Laura !

She had uncommon courage and love of freedom. The soul that animated Cuba's Ladies in White died today in one of that Stalinist regime's hospitals

Wall Street "revolutionaries"

trust fund babies
their "long march"
to and from Hamptons

Amanda's home now

her first abbracci
- she catches herself -- "hugs"
Amanda's home now

USS Indianapolis

those still at sea
they can't forget
survivors' anguish

Madrid Metro, March 11, 2004

a clipping from home:
"Aguilas Ganan Serie"
found in his jacket

Many of the 191 persons murdered by al Qaeda
on March 3, 2007 were recent immigrants to Spain.
Some, like this haiku suggests, from places like the Dominican Republic; a favorite team's success brings back bitterweet memories of home.

Hubris of "Che"

In Bolivia
on a mortuary slab
the 'new man,' handless

Ash Wednesday

after the carnival
a smudge on our foreheads
Ash Wednesday

Roadside attraction

dancing waters
so nineteen fifties
color tv in all rooms

Mona Lisa Smile

"Mona Lisa smile"
she reaches for
an antacid

urban poverty

dented soup cans
without labels
hunter-gatherers

Destroying the text

Taking apart a text
leaves out its meaning
deconstruction