Jumping up and down — the fragrance of lilacs / and a fast-beating heart
Essential Business Haiku 5/1/20
just walk a few blocks / check out the town center to / see what is open
Haiku 4/10/20
Some dark clouds came by — peeper frogs still peeped and grass / blew in spring breezes
Haiku 2/22/20
to be sunlit waves / to be the round stones below / to belong to this (Notes: I had a couple things going on here…I had been doing some Shintaido exercises at Lake Massapoag that connect to nature with a staff — reaching up to the sky, down to the earth, out to the horizon. And I have been participating … Read More
Haiku 2/15/20
Those sunny cold days / and trouble that happens when / clouds get stuck in trees (Note: In my exercise with jo staff, I alternate lifting the staff to the sky and back down to earth. I was noticing the bare branches — it’s Winter after all, and also the dry brown grass on the ground when I brought the … Read More
Pushups in the Woods Haiku, 1/19/20
That evergreen sprig /getting closer and farther /closer and farther (Notes: this little patch of earth gets a lot of my attention over seasons — a pushups station on my running trail through the woods near Lake Massapoag. How often do we really get our faces close to the earth? When you’re doing pushups, it’s about as close as you … Read More