One should bear in mind that even though one light is green and another light is red, someone else may not be bearing that in mind.
One should also bear in mind that some people believe in God and wear the mantle of righteousness and don’t appreciate being called thoughtless sheep shaggers no matter how badly they drive.
And one should bear in mind that the vegetarian-composed salad the guest who arrived late made for the potluck may contain peanuts.
Everyone should bear that in mind should they ever invite him to dinner again.
And please bear in mind that an EpiPen shouldn’t be injected into the buttocks.
is a regular contributor to haiku, haibun, and tanka journals. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Flash, Rattle, Modern Haiku, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, SurVision, Haibun Today, The Haibun Journal, and Contemporary Haibun Online (the latter for which he served as content editor from July 2014 thru January 2020).
His chapbook of haibun, tanka prose, and prose poems, Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), was an honorable mention in the Touchstone Book Awards. His chapbook Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018) was a winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize in 2018. He is also the author most recently of a collection of prose poems, haibun, and senryu, My Thology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019); and an e-chapbook, What I Say to You (proletaria.org, 2020).
