19 June 2021 (crows)

fledgling crows

find their voices

riverside mud

18 June 2021 (catbird)

catbird morning the first strawberries

17 June 2021 (peony)

surreal dreams all night . . .

the last of the peonies

drops its petals

16 June 2021 (tourists)

summer begins

in this tourist town

multiflora rose

15 June 2021 (goldfinch)

morning rain

in conversation

with a goldfinch

14 June 2021 (crows)

neighborhood watch

crows chase a hawk

through our yard

13 June 2021 (vireo)

Inspired by a presentation by Anne Burgevin yesterday, on haiku prompts, given (via Zoom) at the Haiku Society of America’s 2021 Conference. (All presentations will be available for later viewing on YouTube.) The prompt was “morning rain.”

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morning rain

the vireo’s song

on repeat

12 June 2021 (garden)

summer fling . . .

the weeds I didn’t pull

now flowering

11 June 2021 (lost cats)

one town runs into another

every mile a different

lost cat poster

10 June 2021 (swallowtail)

this fierce longing

for summer

tiger swallowtail

9 June 2021 (peonies)

first peonies . . .

amid all the other birdsong

a dove’s low coos