Beneath willow boughs
Stirring in an easy breeze
We’re a feast for fleas
summer
Shedding Shrouds
Like sloughing a cloak
Or kicking blankets aside
Humidity falls
Allowing Autumn breezes
To elicit grateful sighs
Haiku 16 Aug 2016
Eighty five degrees,
Eight a.m., dry bugs screeching,
August in Dixie.
Haikū 2 Aug 2016
A lavender mist
Rises above emerald seas
Virginia pasture
Sounds of Summer Senryu
When droning goes on
Seemingly without ending,
this guy is to blame.
Haiku 5 Jul 2016
If your clothes are soaked
And there has been zero rain,
It must be summer.
Haiku 21 Jun 2016
Scarlet Taniger
Joyously returns; exclaims,
Summer has arrived!
Clover Dreams
Here in high summer
Again, the ground is whitened
This time by clovers
Fed by the snows and petals
Fallen here before.
Let’s share this place together
Unmoving in sultry air.
Haiku 22 Oct 2015
Fog swirls like breakers
Around the feet of all these
Hilltops like islands
Haiku 29 Aug 2015
The soup here is thick
Beneath this dishwater sky
Awaiting Autumn
Misery’s Comfort
I must remember
to savor this savage heat,
bask within its balm,
against the coming biting,
cold of winter’s bone deep ache.
Haiku 20 Jul 2015
We meager mortals
were not bred to consume this
pea-soup atmoshere
Hit or Miss
Like a line in sand
Water on the pavement
Wet here, dry just there.
Tanager
A sudden red flash,
too small for a cardinal,
flew summer’s herald
Aroil in Pain 