Seven Haiku for the Pleiades

August 2, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

All in the same sky:
Luna, Venus, Jupiter
While the soft winds sigh…

There’s An Atmospheric Pressure

July 28, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

There’s an atmospheric pressure That’s in more than just the air It’s a sluggish, heavy parasite That hides behind the glare

But Which Jaw Drops?

July 26, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

An advert assures us its product is jaw-dropping
If true, this loss of body parts would be painful
And which part of the purchaser’s jaw drops?

In Father’s Footsteps

July 23, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The man pushes the mower,
Carefully cutting the grass,
Followed by his son.

A Discarded Cat

July 19, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

She adopted us several weeks ago And after the usual hissings and spittings Was accepted by the other cats…

Watch and Listen and Read

July 16, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

There are days that I love
When all I must do is
Watch and listen and read

Sombre Absurdité

July 14, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

O grand giants of Gath in grotesque graves,
will ye dread the deer that dance in your lays?
Does and bucks do the dead ye not revere?
And the dark dense depths do ye truly fear?

There’s A Wasp Within the Cloister

July 14, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

There’s a wasp within the cloister
There’s a wasp that sits and spies

Pipe Tobacco and Memories

July 12, 2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

Today I smelled tobacco from a pipe
Although there was no one around except
Perhaps the ghost of the hardware store savant
Whose wisdom filled the air along with smoke

Unworthy

July 9, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Lord, I am not worthy,
That Thou should enter me.
For I am but a sinner,
Yet Thou hast set me free.

Fireflies

July 7, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Trees form an arch overhead, /  shading my eyes from the fierce sun.  / I’m winding down the twisted paths, /  meticulously moving through the shadows. /  Back and forth, the road bends and turns.

The Truth Is At An Undisclosed Location

July 5, 2022.Reading time 8 minutes.

Books have many authors, and the Author of All Blesses them and us with their waves of words

The Stillness of the Summer Solstice

June 28, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

Short strings of words that breathe and sigh as songs
Sunflowers fainting in the afternoon
A treefrog pulsing on the windowpane
Ladybugs drowsing on a tomato leaf

Mentum Caduca

June 25, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

eyes like fire
and heart like frost
mind of mire
soul exhaust

There Is No Peace

June 23, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

There is no peace
People cannot
Will not choose it

All Literature Is World Literature

June 21, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

All literature is world literature / A culture that hugs itself to itself / And refuses to share and share alike / Consumes itself in a closed loop, and dies

Adil’s Tuxedo

June 18, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

Adil paces the floor
Impatiently waiting for a very important package to arrive.
His suit, the suit, the perfect tuxedo for his wedding
A vintage tuxedo like that worn by Cary Grant

A Dog, a Pocketknife, a Twenty-Two

June 14, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

A dog, a pocketknife, a twenty-two
The rightful possessions of every Texas lad
For working out the values he must live up to
The virtues that he learned from his solid ol’ Dad

A Rising Seedling Roars

June 11, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Crumple clenched fist leaf flings up
From damp earth’s deep urn and dark
On furied stipple stems fluorescent green
Vitality gleaned from seed pod potential

Each Altar is Minas Tirith

June 7, 2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Each Altar is Minas Tirith these days
A city of kings and of the true King
Behind whose twice-barred gates and golden doors
The faithful may find refuge for a time