A Collection of Haiku
My purple-veined babe
Peach-fleshed and staring at me
Corn silk for your hair
Momentary lapse
Two monsters have locked their horns
The stink of skid marks
the peach - now full - drops
an avid squirrel finds it
eats all but the pit
All dressed in colors
July comes like a maiden
Tumid and fruitful
When it all depends
On weight of a circumstance
Why bother with fear
Is it possible
True interconnectedness
Indivisible?
Summer’s endowments
Shirtless lads and lightning flies
Corn and carnivals
I have reached my time
When questions turn to wonder
Where sense means marvel
A small piebald dog
Who has never seen itself
Thinks nothing of pride
There should be more days
In which nothing is required
Days of happy chance
one sudden moment
glows in the measureless span
a star in itself
colors are no accident
with a clear purpose for each
prismatic wonder
how withered the lives
that have found nothing to share
how sole and arid
A thunderous sky
Birds seek shelter in the pines
The forest trembles
Will life assemble
To a predestined center
Where it all makes sense
as the day retires
the last candles are blown out
thin smoke from their wicks
A pale glimpse of dawn
I’ve known too much of the night
It’s too late to sleep
Morning seatherny
Their chorus fills the garden
My heart glad with them
Rolling in my sleep
Waves of dreams wash over me
Restless day ahead
These long green days
Times of common paradise
When summer repays
When they had little
But their love and innocence
When they were once rich
Crow to another
Have you found something to eat?
Enough to partake?
I-40 at dusk
Headed west outside Flagstaff
Peaks against pale skies
They all make good sense
The arguments and reasons
Yet, of course, unless
They are no less wed
Two hundred seasons have passed
Love still binds their lives
Uninvited guest
While I was hiking in peace
A bug up my nose!
On a southbound train
Shantytowns along the tracks
Dirty children wave
Shindy of finches
Taking turns at the feeder
Blithely aflutter
I will rest my head
On the pillow of summer
And enjoy bright dreams
