Snow Haiku
the way
the sun is
white
snowfield
altostratus
radiatus
snow
drifting
where the
aster were
nightsnow
for a few
moments
the real
Earth
white doe
snowmelt
reveals
cirrus
clouds
blue
returning to blue snowshadow
snow coming
two crows at
play
in the east
wind
cirrus
vertebratus
the
stillness below
the endless
snow
lilac and
cyan
endless
altocumulus
over the
snowfield
spreading
cirrostratus
the white
pine’s shadow
greys the
snow
cirrus
spissatus
the many
deerpaths
through old
snow
the greyness
of the linden
over the
greyness of its shadow
snow coming
the white
pines continuing to become snow on the horizon
Blue
Haiku
the sky
yellows the land blues winter distance
les effets
de soir
deeper into
the blue
of night
jasmine
the way the
spruce is blue stratocumulus
long dawn
the scent of blueness across the mountain deathcamas
out
of metaphors
summer blues
the white
pine lavenders the blue hour
altostratus
undulatus
the blue
curves
of the
Appalachians
the sun on
the black vulture blue of pineshadow
blue also a
color of deepening autumn
steel clouds
the green for now of blue mountain
worm’s cry
altostratus
clouds break
to show the
blue
first asters
the fog pouring over blue mountain
endless blue
breaking the symmetry a sparrow
stratocumulus
over snow
the blue
spruces
continue to
blue
Atlantic
Haiku
a rising
moon disappears into the cloud edge of the Atlantic
leaning away
from the
voice of the Atlantic
live oaks
deep within
the throat of the oleander Atlantic evening
behind the
scent
of the
Atlantic
altostratus
moon
listening
for them
in the voice
of the Atlantic
lost poems
an impasto
of turquoise moon on the Atlantic
nightwaves
passing through the moon edge of the Atlantic
altocumulus
moon
the sound of
blue
whips the
Atlantic
Atlantic
night
the wind
brings in
the scent of
indigo
Atlantic
gale
a gestural
abstraction
of blue
the shape of
the Atlantic wind brown pelicans
seventeen
brown pelicans
against the
stratocumulus
Atlantic
afternoon
Mountain
Haiku
from this
mountain
all
mountains
lavender
altostratus
big rigs
cumulus
clouds pouring
over the
mountains
low stratus
squeezing them out of long mountain fireflies
downpour
the time it
takes to make a mountain
dust
camera
obscura
the sun
sketching clouds
on long
mountain
long
mountain’s clouds
filling the
Susquehanna Water Gap
mayflies
hazy
mountain
the long
journey
back home
the ages
until their summits meet the white pines the blue mountain
second sky
the mountain
swathed
in haze
polygons of
sun
descend long
mountain
clouds in
the north wind
stratocumulus
dawn
a patch of
winter green
on long
mountain
Moon
Haiku
altostratus
clouds
erase the
day moon
long
mountain
altostratus
distance
the cyan
seas
of the day
moon
how could I
quit you
Flower Moon
pulling on
Ophelia’s
robes
the moon at
dusk
against the
editor’s
strict
instructions
Flower Moon
on our backs
moonlight
every color
but black moonlight over the Atlantic
cirrostratus
moon
a late ibis
crossing
over
the eleven
infoldings of the altostratus moon snail
red moon
on the dunes
oleander
moonlight
shattering as I crumble into the sheets
staring back
at me
at 4:00AM
perfect moon
between the
moon
and me
Planck’s
length