raven speak

‘Bird Whistle’

loss

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

 

good news

good news . . 

the planets aline

tonight

rings

chasing ‘round a pine

the sound of squirrels

mating season

Trash Panda Haiku

going through
another rough patch
beggar burrs

after the surge
a line of flotsam
river-shaped

the silence
after the question
night owl

acorned

The Heron’s Nest

Volume 25, #1

March 2023

barest

tail

as if a lizard

needs no tail

sleeping cat

glow

fingers

gathering

a gathering

of sweet gum balls

first cool front

mississippi

hide and seek

among the oaks

one mississippi . . .

canoe

the river

after the canoe

the river

blackbirds

enough to steal

the river’s voice

four blackbirds

river

tidal river

water lilies ignore

the old bridge

taste

rainstorm the taste of your scent

become

resting place  for a dragonfly  i become

coat

asphalt a new summer coat

death

watering

i love my garden

to death

glory

dawn

i hurry to catch

all the glory

linger

sunday morning

ducklings linger

in the lilies

tattoo

heatwave

the guttural voice

of a blackbird

boss

sunrise

the vocal range

of my old cat

Akitsu Quarterly Summer 2022

glitch

a flat tire

on a mountain road

wild daisies

tomorrow

missing you . . 

   maybe tomorrow

       bluebird

me

night ramble

as far from me

as i can get

after

still pond a snake’s trail long after

thrill

seven decades

the thrill of skin

touching skin