Prairie

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” hopefully don’t fall flat.

prairie breeze—

a thistle snags

the drying bedsheet

             (written 1997, published 1998)

prairie flower—

your sketch

of just its fallen petal

             (written 2002, published 2020; see “Star Wheel” sequence)

prairie homestead—

the tire-swing oak

felled by an ice storm

             (written 2019, published 2019)

prairie rain—

the windmill stirs

out of its sleep

             (written 2011, published 2014)

prairie sky—

the sudden spray

from a peeled mandarin

             (written 2011, published 2017)