Collected Haiku

Collected Haiku

country graveyard
a hummingbird
she would've loved

(The Heron's Nest Award)

letter in her hand
dirt from the road
filling her eyes

winding road at dusk
the logger slows down
for a deer

bitter wind
her face buried
in a folded flag

evening shadows-
picking blackberries
through barbed wire

spring gust
the baby bird's heartbeat
grows faint

out of the coal mine
he walks the holler
in silence
(first published in Mayfly)

hazy horizon
a migrant worker
picks peaches

faint birds
the boat drifting
into dawn

river breeze
children sing
from the bank

inside the rope
a green snake
coiled in dew

summer dusk...
an owl on the phone pole
ignores traffic

suppertime
the tang of weeds
in the cow's milk

in the crowd
at a peace really--
praying mantis

twin girls
pitching horseshoes--
another ringer

autumn evening-
the eye of the needle
eyed again

reaching for
a higher branch
the ladder wobbles

wildfire-
the horses run
into sunset

head down
he bends to the penny
heads up

Story ID:	101
Written by:	Darrell Lindsey (bio, contact, other stories)
Story type:	Poem
Location:	Nacogdoches Texas USA
Year:	1964
Person:	mother