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autumn clouds a carly simon poster fades into barnwood
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honking geese the jumble of pumpkins at a roadside stand
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yellow leaves in the current a mink after a mink
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no way out death's at the door demanding candy
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backstroke?? her navel ring glints in the moonlight
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second week away from home wild blackberries
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alone at dusk . . . ice-blocks resettle in my glass
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old letters . . . flotsam on a river to the ocean
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city dweller?? the sound of the interstate i call the ocean
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rain of stars the eyes of wish-makers sparkle with hope
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light shimmers on the undersides of leaves scent of clay
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shooting star?? those things we tell no one
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just inside the garden gate the first bench
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old orchard beach before i could think it cassiopeia
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rush hour haze . . . the traffic warden swats away a cherry petal
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clapboard house in the just plowed field sundown
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first light?? the soft-sleep breath of my newborn child
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"gnats gnats gnats"
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ladybug outbreak the wish i make again and again
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childhood home i dig out the roots of a tree i planted
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a tributary muddies the main stream?? middle of spring
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the unfading sun in your face amaranth
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tipping rain the bull trudges between tussocks
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cormorant's dive waiting until my eyes hurt
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snow moon bitter wormwood still on her tongue
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all i wanted to tell her bare winter trees
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pisces rising?? the big one runs with my line
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my cold hands a scrabble of bird claws on the guttering
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coffee perking a ray of sunshine streams into the rain
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wintering their different ways birch and pine
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huddled pigeons a taxi waits in winter rain
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wild weather something of it stirring in me
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vernal equinox the tender shoots of weeds
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squirrel chatter in the woodshed a cache of cones
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jade tea cup the fallen leaves of the poinsettia
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snow-covered hills?? my sister and i coast into the new year
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winter moon across the wall my long shadow
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city zoo a wolf looks up at snow
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end of yuletide?? i harvest all the balls from the christmas tree
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dusk . . . i?m just another glow amid traffic
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winter night . . . i pick the last grain of rice from the plate
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expanding universe the homeless man looks for a place to sleep
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a train trip to mongolia . . . winter stars
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full moon chill in the green tomatoes a change of plans
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north wind and the swirl of leaves?? this fire within
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the apples left in a leafless tree: a prayer for your lymph nodes
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first snow?? still knitting the second mitten
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northern lights?? the feel of a planet beneath my feet
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ignoring the directions on the gps?? indian summer
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autumn afternoon mother touches my thinning hair
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veterans day?? first red flower on the cactus
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hosing the garden off the carrots?? thanksgiving
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a crow at dusk?? ink sinks deeper into the page
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toddler's first one small step toward the moon in the window
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autumn moonlight a migrant worker sings his way home
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smoke drifts from a fajita stand plaza autumn
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the right shoes in the wrong size october moon
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scent of balsam?? shapes of geese held in the mist
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sheen of apples?? in a migrant child's lap her own dirty feet
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my mother braiding my hair . . . i realize now how young she was
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walking alone?? my face disassembles
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rushing home as though you were still there autumn dusk
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autumn leaves the songs we learn as children
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the desert stars?? i almost believe his forever?
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a neighbor's dog howls with the sirens?? night heat
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the ocean's roar on the forest hike my second-wind
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dry thunder one yellow leaf trickles from all of the green
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fluffy seed pods?? the evening air heavy with party chatter
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death valley: a man who's never been there tells me all about it
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as great as the grizzly the fear
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sand fishing the long shadow attached to his heels
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your cologne lingers on my skin . . . day moon
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summer's end we topple a pyramid of beer cans
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choke cherries?? press of my skeleton through the flesh
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thudding surf?? her permission to be blunt
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sequoia national park i promise my grandkids they?ll grow tall
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lifeless bumblebee?? the ground around it darkens with raindrops
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hailstone it tastes a little of wild onion
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gibbous moon my son tells his part of the story
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nursing blisters at the halfway mark . . . soft mossy rocks
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cloudburst the sound of raindrops changing size
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summer night my cat speaks to it through a screen
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pulling the push? door vernal equinox
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the road disappearing into wetlands of mist . . . i keep going
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the scent of turned earth across seeded fields twilight
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hawthorn breeze the white bob of a rabbit's tail
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spring wind our dog barks where i?m hiding
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wildflowers i cannot name most of me
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twin lambs the ewe keeps watch over the one not moving
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her note in my pocket cherry buds
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the best conversations are in my head?? rain on the windowpane
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may rain?? i stretch my body over the whole bed
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fishing village a rumor of blues running through the caf?
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summer wind we ask a younger couple where we are
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winter sun . . . i look for something useful to do with my hands
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icy cobblestones?? the tinsmith stokes the forge
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tangled in blades of grass spring breeze
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i ask him again the honeybee burrows into thistle
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home game our wind in their flag
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lowered on lark-song his coffin
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