3/30/20: squabble day two police cruisers patrolled my street today for the first time beginning this second week it is always squabble day #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry #coronavirus

2/27/20: second draft winter night a neighbor’s Christimas lights still on what will the second draft look like? #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry

2/2/20: unprompted Groundhog day Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring Does this overcast day in the forties prove him right? #tanka#kyoka#micropoetry#poetry

1/26/20: living in a city those nights sleeping in that sleepless city with that traffic drone, horns and blaring car alarms, and a night sky void of stars #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry

1/22/20: first poem first poem sixteen lines in four stanzas the amorous kind for a friend to give a girl for whom he could find no words #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry

1/8/20: gender role Breaking the rulesof Dad’s masculinityI make an appointmentfor a chiropractorafter a day of back pain #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

1/8/20: gender role Breaking the rulesof Dad’s masculinityI make an appointmentfor a chiropractorafter a day of back pain #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

1/3/20: waking up early Five in the morning all I want to do is hit the snooze only Friday’s light traffic saves me from being late #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry