Fruit tree in gray

3 Things About This Artist Trading Card

1. Drawn from light to dark with brush pens.
2. The top half is more successful than the bottom.
3. Someday I hope to move to the country and live sustainably.

one haiku
    in the palm -- three lines
print, print, print

Three Things About This Haiku

1. My entire output for the month on November.
2. Conceptual in nature, and therefore unhaiku-like.
3. But I did compose it during a walk through nature.

procession
   against the moonlight
wisps of cloud

3 Things About This Haiku

1. Big old Moon this weekend. The kind that fills a clear sky.
2. Clouds are like prudes wanting to hide her nakedness.
3. The light in moonlight could have a double meaning.

Im going to end it all.

3 Things About This Artist Trading Card

1. Should I have drawn another set of arms/legs?
2. I thought about a lusher, green background, but went with gray.
3. So cute! Don’t do it little bug!

He started following me on Twitter.

3 Things About This Panel

1. Children these days dress in naturally comic modes.
2. Dogs are de rigueur in single panel comics. Dogs and deserted islands.
3. If someone hasn’t already done this gag, I hereby claim it for Paisley Coats!

siren wail
the disquiet passing
lights festive

3 Things About This Haiku

1. Ambulances are like passing specters.
2. And yet they are almost beautiful when divorced from their significance.
3. I have similar ambivalent feelings about ice cream trucks.

He detailed the dispensation of every finger. Bones. Major organs. Where to bury his eyes — a Malibu beach. For years I kept Marty on ice. Years. Who knew Marty had that sort of testament?

Marty was more than a snitch. He was family. A last request is a brother’s duty.

3 Things About This Micro-fiction

1. Strangely enough I find organized crime makes for dull prose. Even the motivations are cliche.
2. It’s all about the whacking. Dysfunctional families who whack.
3. So I don’t really like this piece. But I haven’t the heart to bury it.

He Grinds Their Bones Into Dust

3 Things About This Artist Trading Card

1. There has been no confirmed sighting of Bigfoot since the invention of Nintendo.
2. He ties the hair back out of his eyes.
3. I spent much of my youth staring at wood paneling.

I’m digging a grave, son. My life’s work laid bare. A macabre undertaking, but I’ve excavated this plot with an archaeologist’s care, with fine brushes and twine lines. Every artifact was artfully placed.

But who will fill your grave, I ask.

The old man bends brittle and weeps.

Not I!

3 Things About This Micro-fiction

1. Wrote this in under 5 minutes.
2. Who will be the person in the grave? Who will heap the earth upon him?
3. I allow myself one exclamation point each year.

indistinct
    shushing, leaves scatter
boughs bending

Three Things About This Haiku

1. I think of lying in the hammock. Hammock haiku.
2. Indistinct doesn’t seem like a word one finds in a haiku. It’s an experiment.
3. This one reads better on one line.