Note: These “haiku” originally appeared on my twitter account. Twitter limits each line of the “haiku” to 25 characters. That was my only restriction. I do not count syllables for these poems.

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a whimpering star
begs the soul for dust:
day’s gift to night

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a moon buys a noose for
the silver finger bathing
::desperation breathes in

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smelling death’s hair the
wind smiles at the earth;
dust settles on no mirror

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[in the grain;:
again ((bird in flight))]
water reflecting the moon

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the wind tells the sky 
there is no life no death
only illusion’s light

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mind not mind (carnivals)
concrete magic or disease
–like many, a cough

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wings flight and the sea,
a fire consumes the wind
and practices arithmetic

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fire dreaming of water,
the stone a dancing mimic
:tolerance biting tongues

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placebo teeth discover
ghosts and oceans:
giving without expecting

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moon held by the tree,
stars held by our eyes–
birds borrow your voice

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the grace of muffled eyes
teeth begotten tooth over
jealous bird/jealous fish

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in heaven a paper chimera 
will have a paper heart::
a river will kiss the sea

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a circle is drawn by
life’s paradoxical finger
::sand prays to her//for

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the cigarette disguised
as the sunrise carnival::
life asks time a question

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skin tasting skin at dawn
:bones hum in the wind as
Mapplethorpe flowers weep

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several stars are huddled
together in a dark corner
:sky gives way to bone

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waiting for light to
kill and to birth shadow:
the cloud passes slowly

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rope sings a lullaby
to exhaustion’s blue sky:
giving is its own reward

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the desperate dream
sacrificing love to sky:
sky sacrificing the night

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teaching the tree w/ wind
to hold the moon gently:
ghosts guide the branches

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this is stardust, traded
for the burnt & braided:
like roots/souls entwined

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I will be sharing more of these Twitter haiku from 2023 in the coming days. Let me know what you think and if I should start sharing my new daily haiku as well. I still maintain a daily writing habit, though due to the nature of Twitter I have stopped sharing them and dropped the 25 character/line limit. Do you write daily? Let me know about your routine below.