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Category Archives: Poetry
“today the air hangs” and “out from the breaking” – summer haiku
today the air hangs
dense as an asthmatic lung
waiting for cool breath
out from the breaking
clouds, rain-poured coolness; wet leaves
as green as eden
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I really rather wanted to continue the asthmatic metaphor into the second haiku, but could not manage it, and so changed it up, though I imagine Eden had no place for asthmatic lungs, as mine were a bit today. These days I am having a hard time imagining the many with worse asthma than mine and no insurance and/or no air conditioning. Thankful, and for the rain as well.
Oh, and PS, the photos will return one day…
cut off slacks, sweat, a – summer haiku
cut off slacks, sweat, a
new tomato bed; i am
my uncle virgil
she travels to me – summer haiku
she travels to me
in leaves; night queen of the east
breathes; iced jasmine tea
“this evening’s light pours” – Spring evening haiku
this evening’s light pours
viscous, strengthening into
summer’s honeyed mead
“clouds a flotilla” – A haiku on a Spring day
clouds a flotilla;
the sky a sea stretching down
to the horizon
the wind spitting snow – A haiku for the cold, flooding spring, with a nod to T.S. Eliot
the wind spitting snow,
the rivers spilling woe; this
april’s the cruellest
Bilbo’s Ringbearer Sonnets – Upon the Arrival of the The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Alright, upon re-reading, I suppose one may have to be a bit of Tolkien geek to appreciate these 
Oh, and what do I think about the Hobbit movie? I may do a longer post, but in the meantime I am sending this to Peter Jackson for Christmas 
after guests, blown out – Christmas Haiku
after guests, blown out
candles curl smudged, berried smoke
into the dimness
Zamboni! – Some Haiku About Ice Skating
Rumbling on the ice,
The magical snow beast. Hail,
Mighty Zamboni!
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Shaved, sprayed, smoothed–the ice,
Soothed, waits once again for the
Violence of skating.
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-Skating on a warm day last year at Steinberg.
