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Category Archives: haiku chain
braid battlefield
no cornrows with beads for her & no threaded hair but the long coiled twists those twists are rasta fingercombed to sleek ripples– war over, we twist
Haiku Heights September Heights: Hummingbird (haiku chain)
hummingbirds love red– scarlet runner beans call them sweetly, with bright tongues red stutters their flight i had dark red curtains once & watched one hover outside my window desire in hummingbird form– expressed in pauses
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Haiku Heights: Symphony
illuminating child voices float through the hall purer than sunlight my daughter’s alto a honey-dark thread woven through the sopranos the risers placed where Stravinsky and Bernstein stood crafting symphonies
I hear summer chime inside cricket songs, but still September scents air unripe, crisp, stony I taste chardonnay with each drawn green apple breath
leaning evergreen (haiku chain)
roots could be fingers grasping the eroding bank– me, I think she bows and pauses to smile in the slow mirrored water, her branches preening
May Day Haiku–just for fun
Spring will blush bright red & cover our nakedness with apple blossoms I’ll bring the blanket & taste your kisses gladly beneath the fresh sky without shame the laughing sunlight as witness ***The idea for this haiku chain was stolen from a … Continue reading