muddy trail
deep footprints
filling with rain
Author: River Malcolm
River Malcolm is a family therapist living on Orcas Island in Washington state. Although she has written poetry for almost fifty years, she fell in love with haiku as a daily practice this past summer.
roadside field
barbed wire fence
leaning into mist
school garden
sunflower bowing
under a crow’s weight
Down the mountain
lost mitten lying
palm up on the trail
“DO NOT ENTER” tape
lifting in the spring breeze —
the gate opened wide
the wind and the kids
the kids and the wind
all the way home
Wind whipped lake
one yellow maple leaf
riding the waves