Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: shades drawn the sun slips in under the door       by Joe McKeon (USA) Acorn, No. 39, Fall 2017

Originally posted on whimsy~mimsy: from two yards overthe lawnmower still buzzesafter the sunset we watch bats swoopingtheir silent acrobaticsa tango at dusk the cicadas singover our conversationdrowning out the words I watch your tongue flickgathering the amber dropsalong the smooth rim we sip tequila slowlywarmed more by heated glances

Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: knowing the way the old Bedouin draws lines into the desert sand ? published on Asahi Haikuist Network 09-18-20 道を知っている　年取ったベドウィンは砂漠の砂に線を引く lost and found the raven on my shoulder no longer a stranger ? first published on hedgerow: a journal of small poems #132 行方不明になり見つかった 私の肩のカラス もう他人ではない not a…

Originally posted on Magical Mystical Teacher: Among the flowers and grasses, tiny yellow-and-brown things with wings land and take off, take off and land. Should I be worried that I do not know their names? I lift one of the things from a flower stained with its excrement—so small to have made such a big…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 春深くエゴン・シーレの男女かな　　　飯島晴子 haru fukaku egon shiire no danjo kana ??????????? deep spring… ??????????? a man and a woman ??????????? by Egon Schiele ? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Haruko Iijima from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:? Haruko Iijima (1921-2000)? Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is an…

Originally posted on word pond: low slung river thoughts of home and lemon trout Alan Summers Source: brass bell: a haiku journal: edible haiku