Haiku

I sometimes write haiku on bar napkins.

Here are a handful:


from Presence

    skinning the fish

neither of us 

    blinks


from Modern Haiku

     tea leaves—

I turn the cup this way

     that way

 

     zen garden—

gravel

     in my sneakers

 


 from bottle rockets

    quiet morning—

a songbird 

    left by the cat

 

    cough drop

in my coat pocket—

    last winter’s cold

 

    summer evening

in the crowded park

    human chess

 



from Frogpond

 

     winter afternoon—

warming my hands

     with my hands


 from Acorn

     summer afternoon—

the koi

     nibbles my reflection