A Collection of Haiku
The hot winds of June
Devour the remains of spring
When will monsoons come?
On my hands and knees
The dark soil under my nails
An earthworm disturbed
I love to wander
To avoid destination
A flaneur at heart
Spend a day alone
[though it might not be written]
You'll find a poem
This unfallen fruit
The ripened promise of youth
Seeded with new hope
Where wild iris grows
Where no boot has ever trod
There a perfect peace
We are meant to dance
Children know this simple mirth
To twirl without care
Envy knows no depth
A stone in a floorless sea
Sinking - unsated
The hawk and the owl
The blue of day and night's eclipse
Exchange the same sky
Spring gives a long sigh
Can summer be far away
With its high-hung sun
When you cannot fly
I will bring food back to you
Your hunger will starve
Predator's sequence
To search - stalk - chase - grab - and kill
Then to digest life
Embark at high tide
Trim your sail to a new draught
Horizons beckon
When you build a fence
That separates yours from theirs
What's kept in or out?
Shadows sweep the trail
Specters carried on the wind
A murder of crows
A moth lives with us
Clinging to the bedroom wall
For what does it wait?
We're all in bubbles
Some quite smaller than others
What if they all burst?
Mourning is love's cousin
Who will pay respects in course
Through death or sunder
Burgeoning poem
Each petal itself a verse
Nature's hand is slow
This long-fallen tree
Driftwood in the tides of time
Burnished and stone-bound
It was prismatic
Resplendent and spectral
Made of all natures
He took a rough road
Dilemmas at every turn
The moon was rising
But once in the spring
Bees will worship this altar
The sacred yucca
Gracefully balanced on thorns
Lustrous symmetry
The quick grey lizard
Push-ups on a sunny rock
Warmed - it scoots away
