Haiku Published in Online Journals

breaking the ice
I tell the cattle
it is almost spring

Originally Published in The Heron's Nest XI:2 (2009)

first snow ~
a waking child
breaks the silence

last light ~
a stop sign's shadow
fading into the snow

daylight moon ~
a bald eagle skims
the frozen pond

February 1998

sleeping lovers
pages of a book
turning in the breeze

hands scratched red
gently cupping
the ripest raspberries

his long shadow
stretching into the pond
a white water lily folds

December 1997

slowly
the sunset spreads
endless prairie

Originally Published in The Red Moon Anthology 1996

torrential rains ~
my ailing neighbor
sprinkling the flower bed

darkening morning sky ~
black-eyed susans
brighter yet

way below a sandstone cliff
the stream's soft bank
crumbles

September 1997

the tiny ant
carelessly passing through
my shadow

thin shadows
of a budding tree
in her face

solitary oak
last fall's leaves
holding fast

June 1997

lily pads
cradling rain drops
reflecting clouds

in her hands
a budding twig
the shape of a tree

lily pads
cradling rain drops
reflecting clouds

heading into port ~
the keel quiet
in a following sea

July 1997