Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Noon

horseradish rejoices
cloudlessly rich mallow sings
oozing, scampering



Photo credit: jns from morguefile.com

Sunday, January 3, 2010

In Clover


white beehive slumbers `
careening farm boys wrestling `
flashes of venom `

Haiku Bones weekly prompt: electrifying

I have this Winslow Homer sort of image of barefoot Victorian farm kids with rope belts and cut-down hats rough-housing.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

brownie

bakelite kodak
found in a summer house drawer;
pale child drips ice cream

One Single Impression
: Fading Memories

Sunday, January 4, 2009

harvest

chickadees peck fat
flayed deer hangs in farmyard tree:
hieronymus smile

One Single Impression: skin

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

extirpation

tendril fragments peep
shyly from stucco fissures;
ivy has no smell

Sunday, January 20, 2008

cellarage

kimchi stored out back
a couple few feet under;
hope we can find it

Thursday, January 17, 2008

january

brumal tang of salt:
wet mittens warm by the fire;
cheeks whipped by hood strings

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

blipvert

curtains of grey light
ripple through the smoky haze;
vinyl pads smolder