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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Young Woman Making a Snowman, ca. 1845

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January 30, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900)⁠
Thirty-two Fashionable Physiognomies: Eager to See (You), 1869⁠

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January 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM
December 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (25)

Blue Jay - where’ve you been?
- buries his loot around a stump
and hops away.

Dog at a crosswalk
sits with his back to the cars,
trembling.

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry
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November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (24)

Fall Planting Prayer
To Great Grandfather
Mariano Galante

Candy stripe beets,
collard greens and amaranth,
carrots of all colors -
asleep under the straw,
because of you.

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November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (23)

Cul-de-sac cats
of the long August twilight
watch the sky
as the shooting stars
come down.

Homeless man fishes
for bottles in the trash -
once there was a river.

#haiku #senryu #tanka #micropoetry #FloatingWorld
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (22)

August sleeplessness -
shooting stars and cherry pie
at 2 a.m.; the perfume
of tomato vines
just before dawn.

Empty old rucksack
hangs from a peg -
it’s full of poems.

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November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (21)

(Vow)

That New Moon night
we stood on a hill
overlooking
a river of stars
and a starlit river,
holding hands.

Down on stiff knees
to pull stubborn weeds -
dirt between my fingers

#haiku #micropoetry #FloatingWorld
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (20)

After the harvest -
empty beds
under the stars.

Two boys on a park bench,
two old men in front of a fireplace -
your arm around my shoulders.

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November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
suddenly we’re all shocked & horrified that a grown-ass Woman can make astute arrangements to enter The #FloatingWorld?

Keith isn’t a troll, she was doing just fine & knew it

Let’s be honest, she really went downmarket after Keith, & presumably regrets every bitter second after that…
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (19)

Singers at midnight:
a three-part harmony
under the trees and streetlights;
the scent of snuffed-out candles
lingers in the shadows.

Those seeds we meant to send you - they’re all grown and gone now.

#haiku #tanka #micropoetry
#FloatingWorld
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (18)

Startled in the night
by the sound of plums falling -
sixty year ago.

I follow your shade
through a hole in the fence
to the tumble-down hill
and the kite-blue sky.

#haiku #micropoetry #FloatingWorld
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (17)

Haiku/Ghazal/Whatever To A
Crescent Moon (2/2)

Watering tomatoes
by the setting Crecent Moon -
I’m sorry I hurt you.

Birds sing at sunrise
to the waning Crescent Moon -
an off-key Crow joins in.

#haiku #micropoetry #FloatingWorld
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (16)

Haiku/Ghazal/Whatever To A
Crescent Moon (1/2)

The Crescent Moon shines
through the early morning fog -
now it’s gone again.

She stands outside under
the Crescent Moon, waiting for
hot flashes to pass.

#haiku #micropoetry #FloatingWorld
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (15)

Turn off the news -
it’s too early for this
Caligula shit.

June roses gone blowsy
shiver with delight
in the afternoon breeze.

#haiku #senryu #micropoetry
#FloatingWorld
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (13)

The first/last/only
bee this springtime stopped
at the green and purple
lavender - then flew away
before I could say goodbye.

Crows’ chorus of boos
follows the black cat
from one yard to the next.

#haiku #tanka #micropoetry #FloatingWorld
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (11)

Cloudless night - a sky for wishes.

In the soft spring rain,
the maple tree leafs out -
soaked, but I don’t care.

Picnic blanket afternoon -
the cherry blossoms float down
on us while you sleep.

#haiku #monoku #micropoetry
#FloatingWorld
November 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (8)

Birds before rain

Oh! The pointy-headed bird -
there he goes again!
What’s his name again?
Doesn’t matter, he’s gone now.

Big fat cold raindrop
lands on the back of my neck -
rain’s rude arrival.

#haiku #tanka #micropoetry
#FloatingWorld
November 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The Floating World - a book of days (6)

Birds before rain

Birds, these old bones ache
like a half-remembered dream -
it’s going to rain soon;
from the way you perch and flit
in your tree, you know it, too.

#tanka #haiku #micropoetry
#FloatingWorld
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Floating World - a book of
days (5)

Early pink blossoms
interrupted by two crows
cawing on a bare branch -
let me finish my coffee,
then I’ll get your breakfast.

After the storm -
a patch of moonlight, some stars,
echoes of the wind.

#haiku #tanka #FloatingWorld
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Floating World (4)

Cruel morning sunlight
laughs at my bruised, crepe-y arms - how I used to strut!

Pulled the bedding off,
opened windows, lit candles -
after the morning’s tears.

#haiku #micropoetry #FloatingWorld
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The Floating World - a book of days (3)

He sits on my porch
in the dark, smoking, hiding
from the rain and bad dreams.

Ear poke rasp: “Right? Right?”
- this Blue Jay exults
over the breakfast he stole.

Hungry Moon
searches the bare trees -
nothing to eat.

#haiku #FloatingWorld
October 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Floating World - book of days (1)

New Year’s night -
lulled to sleep
by frogs and rain.

Sky waves of starlings
crest and ebb at dusk -
thoughts pass between us.

#haiku #micropoetry #FloatingWorld
October 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Yamazaki Toshinobu (1857-1886)
A Brief History of Japan in Pictures: Kato Kiyomasa and Tiger

Recently added to our website!

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September 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM