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Haiku for the week 08/01/14 – 08/08/14
Those thick-tongued days of deep summer make silvery strands of insight tough to snag, even on my calloused fingertips. These haiku attempt meditation through immersion in setting: 08/01/14 yellowed cottonwood: Septemberings reddening August’s early fall weedy fur scruff wears thin … Continue reading
Haiku for the week: 07/26/14 – 07/31/14
And a part of me wants to explain that I love living in the prairie, how the sky feels taller there and how the weeds have familiar, childhood names like foxtail and clover. And although it is tedious to drive … Continue reading
Haiku for the week: 07/18/14 – 07/25/14
So the good news is that I’ll get to keep my leg… I really feel like I need that kind of melodrama to maintain my perspective in this summer’s ongoing saga between my left knee and me. (spoiler alert, It … Continue reading
Haiku for the week: 07/11/14 – 07/17/14
The grasshoppers are voracious…I’m not sure what makes them so persistent or ubiquitous, but there you have it. The week in haiku began and ended with the boogers chewing up leaves, irritating me and my happy garden hopes…upon reflection, this … Continue reading
Haiku for the week of 06/06/14 – 06/11/14
I’m a bit early this week, chomping at the bit (or would it be, in writing parlance, “chomping at the nib?”) in anticipation of a short camping trip and the rejuvenation I’m already feeling in having taken an extra day … Continue reading
Haiku for the week: 05/31/14 – 06/05/14
I love summer thunderstorms with their brazen power taking up the entire sky, scrubbing at the earth, putting us all in our place. We’ve been waking up to pummelled tree branches along the humid streets; proof of the beatings we … Continue reading
Haiku for the week: 05/22/14 – 05/30/14
This first day, I was celebrating my four year anniversary and I vividly remember flip-flopping in the park, joy bubbling all around, dripping out of us all: 05/22/14 early risen dew grassed mornings heard our happy tears, now wed four … Continue reading
Haiku for the week 05/15/14 – 05/21/14
Another week of haikuing persisted despite feeling so very out of focus during so much of these past seven days. It’s as though these tiny sentiments are the only instance of time and intention aligning – seventeen syllable eclipses – … Continue reading
Haiku for the week 05/01/14 – 05/07/14
I’m often attracted to the psychology of landscapes, or climates – how mood and place speak similar languages. This month, I have found the syntax of physics keeps trying to tell me something about love… 05/01/14 your black hole pupils … Continue reading
Haiku for the day: 04/30/14
Today is the last day of April, the end of my commitment to share a daily haiku as part of National Poetry Month. I have really appreciated having a daily outlet – and a chance to talk about the writing … Continue reading
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