2025 Haiku from Index Cards

a box of pencils unsharpened white-casket funeral

             (written 2014, published 2025)

after new year fireworks the new year

             (written 2014, published 2024; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

anniversary getaway

       the orca’s path

              beneath the waves

             (written 2023, published 2024; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

as I touch the pine bark

it touches me back . . .

end of summer

             (written 2015, published 2024; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

back to mindfulness . . .

the bookstore cat

finds my shin

             (written 2018, published 2025; in “Pages” rengay)

behind the RV

always the bicycle

with one wheel turning

             (written 2015, published 2022; in “Mandolin Summer” and “Cabinet of Curiosities” trifolds)

boysenberry cobbler

passed for dessert  . . .

the empty chair

             (written 2020, published 2021; in “Cabinet of Curiosities” trifold)

circling angelfish . . .

a voice says

the doctor will see you now

             (written 2024, published 2025; in “Earl Grey” haibun)

correction

this poem is really

about anchovies

             (written 2021, published 2025; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

death anniversary—

each dry stone reminding me

of nothing

             (written 2016, published 2025; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

death anniversary—

snow halfway

down the mountain

             (written 2025, published 2025)

finding a way

through the corn maze

morning mist

             (written 2023, published 2024; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

first kiss—

the two boys

giggling

             (written 2004, published 2025)

first snow—

empty seats

in the passing bus

             (written 2016, published 2019; in “Whiteout” rengay)

full moon over the woods—

one owl

               answers another

             (written 2023, published 2024)

laid off—

the gym punching bag

slowly swaying

             (written 2002, published 2006)

longing . . .

the present tense

of fireworks

             (written 2014, published 2023)

moment of silence—

dry ice fog

drifting to the end zone

             (written 2016, published 2025; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

my daughter’s handful

of frozen dirt—

roses on the casket

             (written 2015, published 2025; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

pine needles

caught in a web—

forest coolness

             (written 2014, published 2024)

pond in the woods—

a quiet exchange

of wedding vows

             (written 2015, published 2025)

roadside stand—

I ask the farmer’s daughter

to re-weigh my potatoes

             (written 1997, published 2003; in “From Best of Geppo” and in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

rumours of snow—

Amazon recommends

my own book to me

             (written 2015, published 2025; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

     steady drizzle—

          a leaf back and forth

across the wheelbarrow

             (written 2015, published 2025)

summer ferry crossing . . .

the mountain reappears

after the island

             (written 2014, published 2024

thickening clouds—

     if only

we had fireflies

             (written 2016, published 2025; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

viewpoint park—

still I can’t

change your mind

             (written 2014; published 2025; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)

while writing email

I leave my kids

to their own devices

             (written 2016, published 2025; in “The Orca’s Path” trifold)