Little Haiku Life

dear blizzard, you can’t

take these memories of heat

or the hope of spring

light is only light

when we accept the darkness

unchecked, the heat kills.

snow is permission 

to eat leftover cookies

too cold for a run

the world begins, ends,

does not ask our permission.

(but never say yes!)

curiosity

kills cats, but not brooklynites

(rules are for breaking)

“down here” and “up there”

might not be so far apart

night comes for us all

color, chaos, sky

the first map of the new world

was nothing like this

gravity swears we

rise, then fall. (maybe this time

is the exception)

love the broken parts

treasure the hole in your head

let things fall apart

if we must break down

let us not do it alone

even grown men cry

outside the city

I see the grass is green, but 

how I miss the cage!

before we were born

men climbed stairs to speak to gods

(the sky answered back)

take your twisted mind

and drown it deep in the sea

with those weird fishes

note: there are two cannes

a mad one lives on the ground,

the other’s above 

and when “here” and “there”

have built a wall between them

you must climb the fence