Water Gap

Train following the river; snowflakes following the train.

mountaintop pool

trees reassembling
after each breeze

red flowers

for the dead—
felled maple

gloom

lifting without lifting within

Leafless

There’s no denying the appeal of dead trees: they look more human.

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