haiku 102
clear winter night —
Big Dipper stands
as a question mark
haiku 90
frigid night
rabbits run
under the lilac bush
haiku 89
foggy night
tree trunks
slowly vanish
haiku 85
tower beacon
blinks through the windbreak
warm November night
Fiction: Noisy Neighbor
“Maddie! You’ve just gotten here and already you look like it’s time to go home. What’s the matter?”
“Emily, I hardly got a wink of sleep last night. You remember how I’ve told you about that old lady who lives next door to me? The widow?”
“Yes?”
“The one who always turns up her radio, or turns up her TV because she’s half deaf and can’t hear it. Well, I’ll tell you this! Everyone else in the building can hear her radio or her TV.”
“Oh, dear. Was she at it again last night?”
“I’m telling you! She’d been up and down with it throughout the evening, and I’d have to bang a little on the wall. ‘Mrs. Kevitz!’ I’d yell. ‘Mrs. Kevitz! Turn that racket down over there!’ And just as I’m settling in and going to sleep, I’m getting Danny Thomas yelling at his bratty son on a rerun of that old Make Room for Daddy!”
“Oh!”
haiku 44
winter night
so quiet
after wind dies
haiku 30
warm night cools
possum stink
wafts in through window
haiku 18
shrouded moon
illuminates
summer night’s fog
haiku 14
late spring night –
looking by lightning
for a tornado
haiku 12
wings and bodies
beat against metal mesh
spring night
NEKWE
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