toki tawa ma ala

aspiring plant fertilizer

[pariksa]

Overcast enough

to keep me inside all day.

A waste of birdsong.

[pariksa]

I should have foreseen!

Feelings as a roadside pond

fostering frogspawn.

[pariksa]

Lovebug aftermath.

Artificial reservoir

murmuring some waves.

[pariksa]

kasi suli li

pali e kasi sin.

mi nasa seme?

[pariksa]

New-growth maple trees

celebrating their saplings.

What am I missing?

[pariksa]

Patches of clover.

Two odd blocks away from me,

marching band practice.

[pariksa]

Crescent moon sliver.

The incoming summer breeze

warns of kudzu bugs.

[pariksa]

His ability

to take off-focus pictures.

Rainy night dinner.

[pariksa]

Emerald leaf buds

scattered on the wet sidewalk.

The closing of spring.

[pariksa]

The joy of birdsong

with no ogre around me.

Wild onion patches.

[pariksa]

Rays of primrose sun.

The weight of a thousand tasks

also upon me.

[pariksa]

Honeysuckle wisps

among tacky, dyed bouquets.

Very curious.

[pariksa]

Making me forget

my own inadequacies,

the song of a thrush.

[pariksa]

Clover-grown sidewalk.

A man proselytizing

to the bundled rags.

[pariksa]

kasi lili la

sinpin kiwen

li len laso.

[pariksa]

Bee jubilation—

decorative brassica

raising ochre blooms.

[pariksa]

kalama pipi.

kasi moku li sewi

e suwi jelo.