Billowing

The following miscellaneous “Haiku from Index Cards” report the wind.

billowing clouds . . .

sailboats chumming

at the boat show

             (written 2018, published 2018)

billowing clouds—

the glacial erratic

shadows the crocus

             (written 2015, published 2018)

billowing leaves . . .

I hold my bow a little longer

over Blyth’s grave

             (written 2013, published 2021; see “Tokyo to Kamakura”; for R. H. Blyth—see “Memorial Haiku”)