fading

at sunrise
moon fades away
beyond my grasp

...

clear morning
dark pond
turning blue

noticing

dragonfly
on the threshold --
a gentle step

...

grass grows out of
a placid pond --
silver sky at sun-up

countryside

I've heard about
the giant snapping turtle
no ducks on the pond

...

I close the gate
a spindly daddy longlegs
stops in its thin tracks

nothing much

as I sit
my mind prattles on
saying nothing

...

haiku
no haiku
no matter

light

scalloped edge
of cloud cover
sunlight dissolves

...

stepping off the porch
his yellow hair
highlighted by the summer sun

winding down

first
leaves
fall

...

bench littered
with curled brown leaves
dying pear tree

rising

first cool morning
in weeks
cicadas' monotone

...

east-facing facades
tinged pink
at dawn

in the air

intricate netting
of a spider web
I see the breeze



...

monarch butterfly
weaves and bobs
amidst the greenery

alpha and omega

coffee in the dark
early morning
reverie

...

at day's end
soft click of
closing doors

play of light

vague sunlight
penetrates
an ashen sky

...

in the mirror
reflections of a shadow
double negative

lost

so hard
to write
one simple haiku

...

starless
night sky
no north, no south

hot

orange ball
above the treeline
steamy day ahead

...

he waters
the parched flowerbed
snaking rivulet

journey

walking slowly
I see
a different world

...

I smile
they smile back --
morning murk lifts

fauna

corner of my eye
orange-beaked cardinal
pecking at the grass

...

at the zoo
surrounded by bamboo
the piercing screech of monkeys

decline and fall

under the canopy
of trees at their peak
downhill from here

...

first fallen acorn
in the grass
summer's slow decline

empty and full

empty
zen
circle

...

spray-painted
on a parking-lot wall:
"I love you so much"

midsummer

languid rising sun
caught by a cross
atop the church



...

lulling buzz
of a bee aloft
wildflower garden

small town

woodpecker patter
comes from somewhere in the woods --
church bells sound the hour

...



meandering stone walls
cobbled together by hand --
ferns in the shade

early

lakelets of dew
on ivy shoots
the sky in each drop



...

circle of flowers
planted in the loam --
mist settles in

one block

hot curbstone
splattered orange
oozing pulpy beads

...

ivy vines
crawl half-way up
the stop sign

afternoon

no clouds
in sight --
a light rain falls

...

toads disappear
under a bush --
sunbeams streaming down

summer scenes

rustle and slap
of wings against body --
early morning traffic

...

crabapples
rolling down the slope --
sweet smell of summer