making coffee
 crows cawing outside
 morning dark
  
 beneath the floor
 of a torn-down shed
 honeycomb
  
 pond bottom
 a little breeze
 nothing
  
  
   

Dock boards
Uneven underfoot:
Watching fireworks
 
Outdoor symphony
On a sultry summer night:
Dragonfly-wing breeze
 
Oozing from
Red pine bark:
Summer heat
 
 
In: After the Night Rain, Dankworth Publishing, 2014.

 
The holly bush
By my window this spring
Releases cardinals!
 
Alley puddle
Behind my neighbor’s car:
Gleaming
 
Pollen-dusted
Strawberries:
Local

City winter:

Dried sidewalk salt

Far from home

Snow whistling

In rows across the road:

My mother’s hair

Oh, its snow

On mountain-ash berries –

Not blossoms at all!

# 1,2,3 in After the Night Rain, Dankworth Publishing, 2014.

#1 in An Anthology of Haiku by the People of the United States and Canada. Japan Air Lines, 1988.

Checking his watch,

Santa outside a toy store:

Guy about my age

Walking through

A garden of two hundred years:

Camellia blossom drops

Yaupon holly

Crooked branches, bright berries:

Christmas letter

In After the Night Rain, Dankworth Publishing, 2014.

How best to balance

Cell phone, briefcase, umbrella

Now that it’s raining?

Rainy day walkers

Repopulate the mall:

White sneakers, white hair

Still life:

Young woman viewing a Monet

Museum guard yawning

In After the Night Rain, Dankworth Publishing, 2014.

Between paving stones

A network of moss:

Walking together

Watching rain

Pour off shingle-ends:

My grandchildren

Here for trick or treat,

Superman and the Count:

Well, maybe so

#3 in After the Night Rain, Dankworth Publishing, 2014.

Bringing in the dock:

Remembering summer

One piece at a time

Cornfield cicadas

Shrilling in the humid breeze:

Rough leaves rattle

Late summer

Road construction dust:

A drooping thistle

#1, #2 in After the Night Rain: Haiku. Dankworth Publishing, 2014.

#2 in Dragonfly: A Quarterly of Haiku 14, 1, 1986.