slow turning carousel
near the river
a couple talks

#senryu #hiraku

woman's wedding
near the lynching tree -
quiet horrors

#senryu #hiraku

miscegenation...
with the winter
there is no snow

#senryu #hiraku

married a White woman
my friend's new
conservative thoughts

#senryu #hiraku

swirling water
in the clean toilet bowl
i envy immortal jellyfish

#senryu #hiraku

twisting roots
of newborn yams...
burning a memorial candle

#senryu #hiraku

"Jubilee" by Margaret Walker...
continued erasure
of Black history

#senryu #hiraku

snow falling
in my imaginations
preparing for bed

#senryu #hiraku

home from work
tired hands reaching for
the Jack Daniels

#senryu #hiraku

night coolness...
senryu in America between
114-116 yrs old

#senryu #hiraku

*btwn 1910-1912, master Kaho Honda started the Yakima Ameikai in Yakima, Washington. The first Japanese-American senryu group. From that time, senryu would be practiced in rich variety by Japanese Americans.

heartache...
master Shugyo's senryu
charming in their simplicity

#senryu #hiraku

older man full of energy—
today adopted
by a husband & wife

#senryu #hiraku

*met the Linnears. both of them are the ages my moman and papa would have been if they were still on this side of life. we talked life. we talked hoodoo. we talked root-work, God, and treaters. they adopted me.

reading Creole folktales
melting ice makes
my drink watery

#senryu #hiraku

elderberry cough syrup
finally
making my way home

#senryu #hiraku

Senryu Day's passed
in 27 decades
this genre has grown

#senryu #hiraku

*inception of Senryu as a genre was in September of 1758

pillaged city
books on philosophy
gather dust

#senryu #hiraku

quiet -
my thermosteel water bottle
to the left

#senryu #hiraku

quickly jotted note
name of a friend's daughter
i pray for

#senryu #hiraku

this also is love—
lying and
standing by that lie

#senryu #hiraku

blinds left closed
in dimly lit rooms
dressed in a robe

#senryu #hiraku