31 July 2019 (late night)

late night haiku

putting together

whatever’s in the frig

30 July 2019 (nap)

sky shifting

from blue to hazy

afternoon nap

29 July 2019 (finch)

…sit back and unwind

finch resuming his song

above the hammock

28 July 2019 (sunflower)

sunflower

the neighborhood pays homage

from the sidewalk

27 July 2019 (lavender)

…the living is easy

humming along with bees

in the lavender

26 July 2019 (ants)

end of July

reconciling myself

to sugar ants

25 July 2019 (waxwings)

outdoor courts

the back-and-forth

of cedar waxwings

24 July 2019 (ekphrasis)

pale bodies

of ice floating in dark seas

hidden depths

An ekphrastic poem is one in response to a work of art. This haiku is a response to “Berg,” a painting by Jamie Wyeth in his current show at the Farnsworth Art Museum: “Untoward Occurrences and Other Things.”

23 July 2019 (cicada)

garden party

dog-day cicada

lays the backtrack

22 July 2019 (tide)

lazy day

letting the rising tide

wet my feet

21 July 2019 (heat)

heat wave

the unbearable activity

of songbirds