Passing by the Rhododendron
Dear crane fly / we have something in common / a long life in a short time April 29, 2021 . [ 1092 ]
Tag Archive for ‘Haiku’
A Little Boy’s Epitaph
Here is the marble, and here is the hand that held it just so, and aimed. April 13, 2021 . [ 1075 ]
Canvas 874 — Greetings
daybreak / a singing robin / sees my toes / then sings a little louder Canvas 874 April 12, 2017 . [ 1067 ]
Teach the Children
She is wise, this old earth. She never hurries herself, yet see how abundant she is. not how much we do but how little . . . our bare feet in the flower bed . [ 1066 ]
Origins
barefoot in the garden / I am as warm as the first sunflower sprout April 2, 2021 . [ 1065 ]
Fingers and Toes
O the language of fear! Medicine, borders, finances. Differences, conspiracies, laws. barefoot through cherry blossoms touching each trunk in the old city park . [ 1064 ]
Vincent
A trip to Safeway to pick up prescriptions for my mother: sunflowers, in six-dollar bunches by the door; rotten eggplant neatly stacked in the produce aisle; hard tomatoes and wilted bell peppers at prices few people can afford. And I think, There used to be a field here. Oh, what I could do with a field just a quarter of the size of the Safeway parking lot. The dreams I […]
Looking Up
from crooked streets these bare feet greet a starling river . [ 1062 ]
Canvas 872 — Last Year’s Apples
last year’s apples — this year’s prices — like the other thoughts I set aside March 29, 2021 Canvas 872 April 6, 2017 . [ 1061 ]
