Boston Haikai 189 -- Illegal lane changes

With punk rock playing
I change lanes illegally
Cut through Somerville

Sept 23 -- Somerville, Hwy 28

Boston Haikai 188 -- Crossing three bridges

Crossing three bridges
Over two different rivers
Left at the strip mall

Sept 23 2017 -- Somerville and Malden, Mystic River

Boston Haikai 187 -- Fair prizes

Carrying prizes
Won at great cost to her dad
Carried home to bed

Sept 9 2017 -- Italian feast

Boston Haikai 186 -- Street festival

Old couples dancing
To a half-remembered song
Teens kiss in the dark

Sept 9 2017

Boston Haikai 184 -- Married fifty years

Married fifty years
Dancing in the street to pop songs
Last night before fall

Sept 9 2017 -- Street festival

Boston Haikai 185 -- New college kids

New denim jackets
On new college kids waiting
For the leaves to fall

Sept 8 2017

Boston Haikai 183 -- Saturday chores

Saturday's poem
Is an old blue Toyota
Wiped clean of bird shit

26 August 2017 -- Cleaning the car

Boston Haikai 182 -- Airport

No incoming flights
At one-o-seven pm,
Only hot cement

16 August 2017 -- Logan Airport

Boston Haikai 181 -- Flagpole

Flag taps a rhythm
Against its pole at its school
Empty in August

12 August 2017

Boston Haikai 180 -- Asphalt sprouts

Sprouted in August
From under torn up asphalt,
Traffic cones, lilac

8 August 2017 -- Harding St under construction

Boston Haikai 179 -- Broken water gun

Broken water guns,
Tucked in Power Ranger shorts
Elms in summer leaf

8 August 2017 -- Secret park

Boston Haikai 178 -- Staring at a cat

Staring at a cat
While it stares at a rabbit
The sun heads for bed

16 July 2017 -- De Graff house

Boston Haikai 177 -- July 4

Found perfect quiet,
Or close enough, in Brighton;
The fourth of July

4 July 2017 -- Brighton park

Boston Haikai 176 -- Toilet waves

Toilet water waves
in apparent sympathy
with the rain outside

6 June 2017 -- 1 AM

Boston Haikai 174 -- Pizza in the park

Pizza in the park
Waited on by a staff of
birds and eager dogs

4 June 2017 -- Boston Common

Boston Haikai 175 -- Button Swept Up

A button swept up
with the dust at ten pn
goes into the trash

3 June 2017

Boston Haikai 173 -- Taking out trash

Taking out the trash
At sunset in an alley
While dinner boils

June 26 2017 -- At home

Boston Haikai 172 -- Open front door

The sun, and neighbors,
All are welcome through my door.
Yes, even you, flies.

2 June 2017 -- Sitting with the front door open

Boston Haikai 171 -- A button

A button swept up
With the dust at ten PM
Goes into the trash

3 June 2017 -- The kitchen

Boston Haikai 170 -- Toilet waves

Waves in the toilet
In natural sympathy
With the storm outside

6 June 2017 -- During a rainstorm