Carmine DeMarco (Hokai)

various stories & writings

Spring, and trees bring gifts:
flowering blossoms rain down
beauteous petals.

(3/29/16)

tree petals

I think, therefore I
become what I THINK I am;
It’s not my true self.

(9/16/16)

I’m falling apart
And so is the universe.
The way of all things.

(5/2/16)

Church bells are ringing.
Churchgoers arriving find
there is no parking.

(August 30, 2015)

After dinner chat:

Gossiping about people

they don’t even know.

(May 25, 2015)

Monkey mind have I,
clutching at shiny baubles;
Wrapped in a skin bag.

(November 20, 2011)

monkey mind

Along with crickets,
Generators in the night
are the only sounds.

(August 28, 2011)

image of Honda power generator

No kung-fu today.
Chicken Delight furnishes
no solace for me.

(March 27, 2004)

Six inches of snow.
Shoveling, while craving some
Callahan’s hot dogs.

(January 15, 2004)