the Norfolk-Southern logo and a graffiti tag
Category: haiku
a line of balloons
beside the campus elms bobbing drunkenly
wood frog egg-mass
anchored to a projecting twig a gleaming ring
slow Saturday
the quarry trucks sit spotless beside the aggregate
between the blue stones
the snowplow pushed off the road yellow coltsfoot wheels
a phoebe catches flies
above the old Black Hawk hayrake on the barn bank
hydrophobia
the nocturnal fox aims its muzzle at the sun
after months of snow
the rust on the drainage grate is in full spring bloom
the snow gone
white versus green figure & ground switch on the striped maple
mourning cloak
won’t your tongue get stuck to that icy snow?
groped for each other
& stopped just short of grappling wild grape tendrils
dead tendril
still clinging tight to a quarter inch of nothing
