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