For Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai challenge
no wolf
to howl this moon
this land is ours
raked cleared sown no wild things
wander free these tame hills
For Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai challenge
no wolf
to howl this moon
this land is ours
raked cleared sown no wild things
wander free these tame hills
A tanka (I think) for Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai challenge.
parched summer
south wind blowing
dry leaves drift
like anchorless stars
in a winter sea
I asked the Oracle for a tanka for Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge: Midsummer rain.
bright blue beneath
cloud blanket falling
vine tendril-fertile
summer flowers through the rain
water over stones—bird sings
For Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai challenge.
hung between
day and night balanced on
the edge of summer
axis tips and we begin
the slow slide into winter
For Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai prompt, pink moon
So many blossom-
faces blush the moon
cherry pink
moon-blush
or reflection—millions
of pink petals
what light falls
soft as blossom colour of
rose petals
silence
cherry-round rosy as
the moon
A tanka for Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai challenge.
listen to the birds
from dawn to dusk their chatter
whistles trills and flutes
listen closer to spring wake
and their twitter becomes song
A haiku for Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge.
hens in the yard
watch the changing spring sky
for the first swallow
For Frank Tassone’s spring equinox haikai challenge.
night balances day
in blossom monochrome
tilting into spring
Haiku sequence for Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge—whitebait.
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fritto misto
the art of golden crisping
quicksilver
caught in a net
small silver fish will never
grow old
too small
too slippery silvery
to have a real name
For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge.
ice thin as frayed nerves
fissures—my crumpled face
after the news
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