spring mountain

someday even this birthday
balloon won’t exist

Question mark

In a distant field, a white house glows like a sail in the late-March sun.

spring equinox

the sound of a bat
taking a drink

frog pond

taking the sky 
for a ride

spring shower

just as the sun comes out 
a killdeer’s cry

Spring Mountain (renku)

spring mountain snowdrifts rotting in the sun old coyote scat mouse bones in mouse fur petrichor the dry skin of … More

drifting snow

with the wind’s attention 
to detail

bare ground again

a mourning cloak’s 
black velvet

Wet Snow: a haiga sequence

old silk threads 
new caterpillars 
of snow

day owl

the pond’s island
of ice

geese heading north

a dog in the valley
adds its voice

Premonition

The feeling that something is about to happen, out here where nothing ever happens…