Anna Cates
Born 1971, Brunswick, Maine, USA
Residing in Wilmington, Ohio, USA
Anna Cates lives in Ohio with her two beautiful kitties and teaches English and education online to the graduate level. One hundred of her short form poems appear in the Living Haiku Anthology.
More biographical information on this poet may be accessed at https://haikupedia.org/
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my garden
full of toads
autumn rain . . .
the old lady talks
to her wallpaper
fast food scents
neon signs blink
in the wet chill
clear and cold
magnolia blooms
and promises
pink sky—
a pit bull pulls
his jogger
Ginyu 69 (Febuary 1, 2016)
viceroy in the grass
where clouds
and buffalo roamed
Ginyu 70 (April 20, 2016)
teen lake party
a gray stork probes
pink water lotuses
Maine coast:
sand too hot,
water too cold
formaldehyde . . .
a young scientist ponders
wormholes
hidden in bramble
harboring forgotten fears—
old fallout shelter
Walmart clearance
gray nail polish
collecting dust
migrating birds
a gun blast loosens
more from the trees
lone star
the church women ask
where I've been
ice crystals . . .
another sorbet recipe
fails
midnight bog
heavy laden with frogs—
public policy
pheromones
his orange hoodie ascends
the wooded slope
migrating birds gone my father's ear & the skin cancer
hummingbirds and bees:
never too similar
for a simile!
waning rose
an ant bears
my burden
Ink Sweat and Tears (Dec. 2, 2016)
arriving
from the first world
I am an alien
Ink Sweat and Tears (Dec. 2, 2016)
the sun
never losing its turn—
how sweat feeds rivers
Ink Sweat and Tears (Dec. 2, 2016)
afternoon sun
a snowman
losing weight
pasty moon
I doctor a flea bite
with tea tree salve