credit card fees

bloodsuckers
drain their victims
with a few keystrokes

the air electric

the air's sharp smell
after a sudden downpour
so electric

urban rain

rain on hard pavement
clicks of stiletto heels
heard after midnight

Ibis

an ibis hunts
diligently for its supper
I wait for takeout

Human trafficking

in a locked closet
a young girl cries out
to no one who cares


based on the case of a Pakistani girl held as a house slave by her sponsors, also Pakistani.
The case will be tried this August in the UK.

Kitchen God

hot oil sizzles
on an iron frying pan
kitchen god speaks

First kiss

night blooming jasmine
its perfume reminders of
that first kiss

Transit of Ray Bradbury

dandelion snow
wafted by a breeze
so effortlessly

6 June 1944

our heroes' blood
as red as that
of theirs

6 June 1944

a beachhead secured
and dearly paid for
that June morning

Without a trace

searching for lost keys
vanished again
without a trace