Midsummer

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” all start with the same word.

mid summer—

bending closer to the garden

for each new scent

             (written 2010, published 2017)

midsummer dawn

      the scarecrow’s

            unbuttoned shirt

             (written 1990, published 1990; compare with “October chill . . . / the scarecrow’s / buttoned-up shirt,” written the same day)

midsummer—

sandbags still around

the flooded house

             (written 2010, published 2019)

midsummer’s eve

moonlight

on the mantel

             (written 1990, published 1990)

midsummer sun—

in the mule deer’s taut hide

a bullet hole

             (written 1993, published 1994; see “Silhouettes” haibun)

midsummer—

the road changes colour

at the county line

             (written 2010, published 2011)

midsummer thunder—

we take turns

having the last word

             (written 2016, published 2017)