#Haiku Happenings #7: Jane Dougherty’s latest #gogyohka #sequence for my current #haikai challenge!
For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge.
sun melts and drips
yellow as an oriole’s feathers
into the hush
with the sweet golden fluting
of his song
among the leaves
limp with sun
where wood pigeons croon lullabies
shade dapples flash with spread wings
and the heat sings
molten beams spread
flowing
a rising tide
until the evening is awash
with liquid sun
and still the singing
no audience
no applause
only the heckling of woodpeckers
shadows lengthening
and perhaps at the end
before the night
when sleep calls
the satisfaction
of a job well done
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