monday 18 january

tugged across the bay
the container- laden barge
makes a new skyline

friday 8 january

sing of hills and woods
Eternal
is very short.

walking
An endless
new Teaching


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Today's OED word of the day is 'file.'

monday 28 december

O Night...

thoughts touching

And Hearts tangling,

stretching

once more
connected


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Today's OED word of the day that was the basis for the erasure poem is 'tenter.'

friday 11 december

scraggly weeds
given in love —
crimson bouquet


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There you have it: the 16th century Mexican legend of poinsettias in 11 syllables.

wednesday 2 december

in the rosy dawn
the moon doesn't set so much
as it dissolves

saturday 28 november

a tiny stream
laughing its way
down the hillside

wednesday 25 november

along the road
blackberry bushes
have lost their sting

tuesday 3 november

Election Day —
non-Internet relics
fill the medians

friday 9 october

SeaTac airport --
only the flights connecting

tuesday 29 september

the woodland path
disappearing under
a layer of leaves

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A big thank you to Ann B. who let me know the comment feature wasn't working. Weird. I think I've got that fixed (you coders will appreciate that I made a change that logically should have had no effect whatsoever — classic).

So, please, have at it!

monday 28 september

the universe
in three tiny mushrooms
on the mossy tree stump

saturday 26 september

memorial stone —
light and shadow dance
in the kanji

The last Saturday in September was a good day for a ginko at Kubota Garden with the Northwest Haiku Society. A heron was there, scaring the koi, and turtles sunned themselves on stones in the spring-fed pond.

A ginko is a haiku walk. Christopher wrote poems on yellow maple leaves.

friday 25 september

afternoon sunbeams
caught in spiders' webs
and vice versa