Four Haiku:

(for Alan Summers)

Night (Senyru/Senyru):

1
end of a long, hard day
breath held in
suddenly let out

2
journal of a dream
hand writing on pillow
cat wants to play

Morning (Senyru/Haiku):

3
toast soaks up butter
egg in skillet
morning sunrise

4
prayer towers subdue
the rusty hinge
of cloudless dawn

Spring haikus (2)

1.
a lost pleasure is
tucked in the folds of darkness
birds sing to sunrise


2.
the apricot tree
long bare suddenly flowers
at which spring smiles back

Stones

(for Paul Auster)

Because quarry stones
don’t have to tell – secrets are
hard, patient, quiet.