~Week 45: The Dodoitsu~
June Garden
Black-eyed Susans, snapdragons
and lavender for the bees;
sugar water, Wendy’s Wish
for the hummingbirds.
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~Week 41: The Kimo~
at my desk
beside a leaning stack of old notebooks
one hand rests on empty page
one on warm coffee mug
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October 29, 2019 [a haibun]
October is ending. The blazing reds of the sugar maple have begun to yellow. I stand at the front window, still in my bathrobe though noon approaches, still fighting a cold with rest and medication. A small grey cat brushes against my leg and then the curtain. Beside her, a fat tabby dozes on a quilt on a rocking chair. Beside the rocking chair, a wastebasket full of crumpled tissues waits to be emptied.
I refill my coffee mug, warming my hands with it as I return to the window. The leaves on the lawn are beginning to brown, reminding me of the promise to rake. Last year we let them lay and they choked the irises. At the feeder, only the occasional finch returns. The water in the birdbath is not yet frozen.
October ends
orange leaves and white snowflakes
fall together
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Winter/Fall
You love the winter,
the delicacy of snow.
I love your warmth,
the lightness of your fingers,
your perfect paper snowflakes.
You love the autumn
a golden world unfolding
I love your growth
dexterous like a spider
weaving into creation
Special thanks to my lovely wife, Emily, who contributed the second tanka of this somonka.
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The Artist Knows
The artist knows
the bee in the sunflowers
shares a great lesson:
keep collecting that nectar
and the honey will come.
Volcano
The volcano,
long covered by the blue
ice of the glacier,
will soon strike out with fiery
eruptions of consequence.
Like a Child Moving
Like a child moving
endlessly from game to game
without tiring–
in the hummingbird’s garden
our hearts dance from joy to joy.
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Among Cottonwoods
The autumn wind blows–
the storms of summer did not
drown the cottonwood.
From the hollow trunk,
monarchs fly away from death
and the coming frost.
They will return when
the soft white snowdrifts of seeds
burst forth in April.
The artist seated
at the roots will have to wait
to carve the soft wood.
Among cottonwoods,
the soul climbs and reaches out.
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Adam Astra 