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

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

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

Bell’s Gap

Strolling down the Allegheny Front on an old rail bed. A haibun.

aerial bombardment

ice falling from the trees 
over here

coming storm

a stump-water pool
glassy with ice

Winter Forest

Visiting Dad’s grave yesterday, I had a strong sense of his absence amid the fundamental indifference of nature.