first glimpse of mountains
smudged above weary plains; my
heart set to skipping
flat in illinois
massed thunderheads awak’ning
first glimpse of mountains
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Another poem and more explication here.
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tea on a rainy night – Haiku During Thunderstorms
tea on a rainy
night, milky sweet; i smell wet
himalayan pines
murree monsoon: a suite
the clouds hang silent
ensconcing wood and village
a mountain monsoon
within the dimness,
a cicada cries, lonely
like the call to prayer
outside dripping dark;
inside our ovaltine and
braving of cold sheets
bright fog after rain;
we stand on the bridge watching
the cataract roar
the diesel’s chuckle
the diesel’s chuckle
echoes long silent bedfords
trundling up the hills
a lunchtime ramble
clamped within this middle west
i do not blame this land
i love
these fields and farms
these forests parked within
a town made large
that plays at being a city
the vice is not here
within these steaming streets
that simmer and spit humanity
nor is it closed within
the thigh-high, claustrophobic corn
that drones with ceaseless buzzing
no
soon, soon all this will be tinged
with coolness
tinged with the deepening red
of maple leaves
and maybe, just maybe,
redbirds cracking bats
against a cold october sky
still there is this unease
these longings that flit past
like flickering scenes
from a car doing eighty
of misty mountain trees
evoking space and time
now gone
