the autumn river’s
unhurried flow
Another one from Thursday’s hike in the Clear Shade Wild Area. Walking across this thing made me realize how much I don’t miss getting drunk.
cable footbridge
Category: built environment
Ogle Township
letting my shadow
lead the way
Had a great walk in Gallitzin State Forest’s Clear Shade Wild Area yesterday, and got better photos than this, but who can resist a name like Ogle Township?
aviary vulture
the unyielding bones
of its cage
Visiting the injured raptors at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center the other day, several clearly made restless by the fall migration. A broad-winged hawk kept flying about in its pen like a trapped moth (but I couldn’t get a good shot of it).
up and down
these ancient mountains
my wobbly knees
A senryu, so the obviousness of the image is fine, I think.
praying mantis
the sacrament’s
exoskeleton
My first draft was simpler and arguably better, but made the image seem a little redundant:
upside-
down praying
mantis
negative air
the yes/no yes/no
of his breath
do I stay green
in the autumn wind
katydid
driving home from the hospital
the boundless sky
tropical depression
touch-me-not quivering
in the rain
Haiku sparked by a glance out my kitchen window, and finished before my omelet was done. A tad obvious, but what the hell.
house
held by a swallowtail
with tattered wings
I spotted this giant swallowtail, an uncommon species here, on my front porch just after I’d posted about something else to The Morning Porch, so decided to make an Instagram post out of it instead. The haiku came to me in the shower. Since it also works as a caption, an old-postcard-style haiga seemed the obvious approach.
