ravencliffs

Thank you, Susan Antolin, editor for accepting my haiku into the Spring 2023 issue of Acorn a journal of contemporary haiku 🙏  

good news . .  the planets aline tonight

chasing ‘round a pine the sound of squirrels mating season

going through another rough patch beggar burrs after the surge a line of flotsam river-shaped the silence after the question night owl

The Heron’s Nest Volume 25, #1 March 2023

as if a lizard needs no tail sleeping cat

a gathering of sweet gum balls first cool front

hide and seek among the oaks one mississippi . . .

the river after the canoe the river

enough to steal the river’s voice four blackbirds

tidal river water lilies ignore the old bridge

rainstorm the taste of your scent

resting place  for a dragonfly  i become

asphalt a new summer coat

watering i love my garden to death

dawn i hurry to catch all the glory

sunday morning ducklings linger in the lilies

heatwave the guttural voice of a blackbird

sunrise the vocal range of my old cat

a flat tire on a mountain road wild daisies

missing you . .     maybe tomorrow        bluebird

night ramble as far from me as i can get

still pond a snake’s trail long after

seven decades the thrill of skin touching skin