cluster
of barrel cactus
morning glow
Month: June 2020
cloud cover . . .
plum blossoms reach out
to the sky
blossom rain . . .
a toadstool turns
inside out
noon sunlight
in the shower’s rhythm
white chrysanthemum
(Originally published in The Mainichi Haiku in English
November 4, 2014)
A short haibun by Larry Kimmel: “Irises”
cooling tea
all I believed
I'd do today
sunrise
waiting for a cormorant
to surface
break in the rain
a flock of lorikeets loud
in the blossoming plum
muting
the commercial
mourning dove
friday night
no one calls
but the geese
old letters in a shoebox
winter sunlight
hanging on
winter sun . . .
the wren’s
vocal warm-up
millions of songs
I will never hear
first snow fall
path of nettles
the sting from
an old memory
first date sushi
the artfully balanced slices
of our narratives
the longest night
feeling nostalgic
for radio static
winter rain
watering the flowers
on her umbrella
tall bamboo
bows to the pruners
late snow
hard times
the bird bath freezes over
before sundown
3am Tao
I try to sleep
without trying
light studded hillside
the miles of night
till the next town
mountain hollow
a sway in the back
of the old draft horse