V Miscellany

The following miscellaneous “Haiku from Index Cards” all start with the letter V.

vacant lot—

my lucky penny

dropped in clover

             (written 2002, published 2017)

vacant nude beach—

my skipping stone disappears

into the fog

             (written 2003, published 2017)

vanishing firefly

the forest’s last light

after sunset

             (date written unrecorded, but 1989 or earlier, published 1990)

vegetable stew—

she tells me about

the adoption

             (written 2013, published 2021)

vernal pool

            the shapes

      of the past

             (written 2001, published 2001)

Victrola in the attic . . .

someone’s fingerprints

in the dust

             (written 2018, published 2021; see “Music to My Ears” rengay)

viewing the blossoms

at the college quad—

I raise a crutch

             (written 2016, published 2019; see “Still I Go” sequence)

visa approved—

the sky today

so clear

             (written 28 September 1997, published 2021; see “Hearing the Owl,” or at least the second postscript)