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Haiku 11 Sep 2018

September 11, 2018 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Beneath willow boughs

Stirring in an easy breeze

We’re a feast for fleas

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Shedding Shrouds

September 12, 2016 / agarrabrant / 1 Comment

Like sloughing a cloak

Or kicking blankets aside

Humidity falls

Allowing Autumn breezes

To elicit grateful sighs

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Haiku 16 Aug 2016

August 16, 2016August 16, 2016 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment


Eighty five degrees,

Eight a.m., dry bugs screeching,

August in Dixie.

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Haikū 2 Aug 2016

August 2, 2016 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

A lavender mist

Rises above emerald seas

Virginia pasture

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Sounds of Summer Senryu

July 24, 2016July 24, 2016 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment


When droning goes on

Seemingly without ending,

this guy is to blame.

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Haiku 5 Jul 2016

July 5, 2016 / agarrabrant / 3 Comments

If your clothes are soaked

And there has been zero rain,

It must be summer.

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Haiku 21 Jun 2016

June 21, 2016 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Scarlet Taniger

Joyously returns; exclaims,

Summer has arrived!

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Clover Dreams

June 20, 2016June 20, 2016 / agarrabrant / 1 Comment

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.

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Haiku 22 Oct 2015

October 21, 2015 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Fog swirls like breakers

Around the feet of all these

Hilltops like islands

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Haiku 29 Aug 2015

August 29, 2015 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

The soup here is thick

Beneath this dishwater sky

Awaiting Autumn

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Misery’s Comfort

July 20, 2015 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

I must remember

to savor this savage heat,

bask within its balm,

against the coming biting,

cold of winter’s bone deep ache.

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Haiku 20 Jul 2015

July 20, 2015 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

We meager mortals

were not bred to consume this

pea-soup atmoshere

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Hit or Miss

June 1, 2015 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Like a line in sand

Water on the pavement

Wet here, dry just there.

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Tanager

May 25, 2015 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

A sudden red flash,

too small for a cardinal,

flew summer’s herald

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