Haiku Planet

 

May's common wonders

The universe at our feet

Open into June

On the Mountain After Rain

There you are again

Vague as if we never were

Wraith in the old growth

Be Like

Blackbirds on the wires

In the hills' golden hour

Blessed with each other

The Leaving

Along this dirt road

A madness of buttercups

Flanked your desertion

Against the Sky

Wind in the old oaks

Here we find tranquility

Under the hawk's turn

(Red-tailed hawk from the public domain)

After the Destruction

Burning rose

We had each other

Fireweed needs the forest fire

Our lives burned over

(photo edited from the public domain)

Twilight

 Balanced day and night 

Death the mother of beauty

Your joy is valid

—with a line by Wallace Stevens

In the Glimmerdim

The road passes under us

Swallows on a wire

In theaters of sunset

Triangulation

You the moon and me

In the tremelo of owls

Illusion renewed

The Invisible

edited from the public domain

Some like it darker

Memory, the restless dead

Asserting their claims

First line from a song by Leonard Cohen, subsequent

lines from a broadcast lecture by Hilary Mantel