Violets

they disregard

the No Trespassing sign!

violets

*    *    *    *

Two senryu

school days . . .

no romance

in straight-As

 

turn of the tide . . .

pulled by the current

of my thoughts

---

Published in Prune Juice: A Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun, and Haiga (no. 22), page 122 (https://prunejuice.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/pj-22-pdf1.pdf), 7/1/17.

*    *    *    *

Cicada

subsiding

into the heat of summer:

cicada

---

Published in Modern Haiku, June 2017.

*    *    *    *

Two on summer

first one

and then another —

cicadas

 

dutch door —

the dog noses open

the bottom half

---

Published in Akitsu Quarterly: Summer 2016 (http://www.wildgraces.com/Akitsu-Quarterly.html), 6/16/16.

*    *    *    *

June evening

June evening . . .

the music of birds

getting ready for bed

*    *    *    *

Rhododendrons

head in the clouds . . .

without warning

rhododendrons

---

Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2017/06/haiku-about-ways-we-experienced-may-23.html), 6/1/17.

*    *    *    *

Country airfield

country airfield

formation of geese

coming in for a landing

*    *   *   *

“Haiku in the Wild” at Llamapaloosa 2017

Each spring, Aurora Alpaca and Llama Farm in Ottsville, Pennsylvania, has a day of llama shearing called Llamapaloosa. In addition to vendors and craftspeople and llama cart rides, this year’s event included two dozen of my small haiku signs (mobiles? mixed-media sculptures?) that are part of a project I call “Haiku in the Wild”. (By “wild” I mean outdoors — haiku that has leaped off the page and gone outside for the public to enjoy al fresco. To see a haiku in nature is to see both haiku and nature in a new way — or so I believe.  ;- )

Of the 24 haiku I installed, here are a bunch of my personal favorites, to give you a sense of what “Haiku in the Wild” looks like.  :- )

I hope you’ve enjoyed these photos!  :- )

---

For more about Aurora Farm: http://www.auroraalpacasllamas.com.

*    *    *    *

Rainy week

rainy week . . .

lawns become fields

of buttercups and violets

*    *    *    *

Colorful haiku

my mug sky blue

and hers lime green

. . . this steaming berry tea

 

she pauses to twirl:

the little girl

in the raspberry dress

 

like five sisters:

a row of orange maples

tall and strong

---

Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2017/05/colorful-haiku.html), 5/1/17.

*    *    *    *