dog day afternoon
not even a cat
in sight
Author: Yvonne Cabalona
Yvonne Cabalona
Modesto, California
YCabalona at sylvan.k12.ca.us
Member of the Central Valley Haiku Club, based in Sacramento, CA. Other haiku published in "The Heron's Nest", Haiku Society of America's 2001 Anthology, "Modern Haiku", and HSA's upcoming publication of "Frog Pond."
year of the monkey
the curved fingers
of the back scratcher
summer wind —
dry grasses flowing one hill
into another
sunshine in the place
where he warmed himself —
the old cat
year of the horse —
her head tossing the ripples
of her perm