Thank you for sharing this wonderful thread about your immigrant mother. These are the things that have always made us a special place, and that’s why it’s so difficult to watch our government demonize and mistreat immigrants today. I am hopeful our better angels will eventually prevail.

the shadow
of a single cloud
swipe left

#dailyhaikuprompt clear sky

guess twice
and cut once
icicle creek

#dailyhaikuprompt icicles

timothy
rots in the field
tilling up tariffs

#dailyhaikuprompt hay

a white overcoat
to hide our history
heritage american

#dailyhaikuprompt overcoat

reaching
the end of our rope
solstice slog

#dailyhaikuprompt |solstice|

our prodigal
never came home
winter leaves

#dailyhaikuprompt |winter|

a long night
of short cuts
union gap

#dailyhaikuprompt |long night|

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humboldt notch
pine sap pools
on the stump

#dailyhaikuprompt |pine sap|

So sorry to hear this Amy… they give us so much and ask for so little in return.

.oO

stuck between
a moan and a groan
twenty year itch

#dailyhaikuprompt |groan|

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the gospel
according to mom
endeavor, forever

#dailyhaikuprompt |endeavor|

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unpicked apples
we’re ripe
for a culling

#dailyhaikuprompt |ripe|

Thank you for this John.

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when we forget
how we got here
artist’s conk

#dailyhaikuprompt |mushroom|

A stand of trees with snow on the ground. The largest tree in the middle is a western larch whose needles are turning yellow and will all fall soon. There are a couple more yellowing larch in the background along with subalpine fir.

/\

october snow
needles begin dropping
with ease

#dailyhaikuprompt |ease|

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comb-over hills
of fallen stems
columbus day storm

#dailyhaikuprompt |stem & fallen|

A forest of grand and Douglas-fir with many stems on the ground or hung up on other trees. This mortality is primarily caused by root rot. Foresters describe this situation as a jacktrawed mess.

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my corks
on jackstrawed fir –
i still fall, daily

#dailyhaikuprompt |straw|

cork (or caulk) boots have metal spikes on the bottom, which help foresters and loggers walk on/over areas like this with minimal (most of the time) injury.

|——8|

volcanic flour
our pillow talk
runs out of steam

#dailyhaikuprompt |flour|

Thank you Kai ☺️

(“””)

alchemy turns
green into gold
liquidambar

#dailyhaikuprompt |yellow leaves|

*liquidambar styraciflua is the scientific name for the american sweetgum tree

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elk bugles
break our silence
frost meadows

#dailyhaikuprompt |frost|

|•|

if these walls
could talk
eaves-dropping

#dailyhaikuprompt |eaves|

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her dapples
give away the ending
palomino bones

#dailyhaikuprompt |dapple|

•

the fuel
for my arthritic fire
shelling walnuts

#dailyhaikuprompt |walnut|

….. …..

a pace
is two
a stride, just one —
mine is six feet,
standing still, none

#dailyhaikuprompt |footsteps|

< ((( ° >

she’s digging
her own grave
salmon redd

#dailyhaikuprompt |salmon|

A black and white landscape photo looking down a mountain valley with Mount Rainier centered in the distance.

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our faults
lift us toward heaven
cascade range

#dailyhaikuprompt |cascade|

.
she knows me
better than i do
doe-eyed mule deer

#dailyhaikuprompt |deer|

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my inner thomas
gets louder
altar mums

#dailyhaikuprompt |chrysanthemum|