nursing home guard for
the only real coffee pot
sister patty
#haiku

jeering crow
jouncing on a weepy branch
redberry buckthorn
#haiku

paragraphs
written below bright eyes
retold stories
#haiku

make-believe
before ten o’clock
April’s frosted lawns
#haiku

wind chime
tangles itself
into a new song
#haiku

a little dish
filled with peanuts
he welcomes me home
#haiku

nursing home courtyard
hidden in the landscape
turkey tail mushroom
#haiku

stepping stone
the heat be stills
a blue dragonfly
#haiku

nursing home blinds
fragmenting the twirls
of a brown creeper
#haiku

upon the roof
a thundering army
midnight raccoons
#haiku

the dull side
of aluminum foil
lines the sky
#haiku

light rain
on parade
new snails
#haiku

newspaper
retrieved, blah
wet socks
#haiku

when? was it me?
six journal pages away
poor flat spider
#haiku

hospital courtyard
my mood takes a change
hummingbird nest
#haiku

through the park
just beside the hospital
I eat an apple
#haiku

(just like I used to do with my dad)

not the stickers
I enjoy collecting
ER visitor pass
#haiku

ironed out
across the seamless blue
old god’s beard
#haiku

inside the bend
of a young redwood tree
nestle of lichen

#haiku

answering
the meow at the back door
cat drives a live mouse
#haiku

dancey robins
in and out the lily bends
with worm cigars
#haiku

I pause
his stormy mood to point out
painted lady moth
#haiku

weed pile
turning to add more
grabby cat paw
#haiku

perhaps I stole
it’s parking space
dark eyed junco
#haiku

a public prayer
for the orange sun to set
no kings march
#haiku

launderette window
triplicating
honeyed sun
#haiku

again by a day
or maybe a few
I miss the plum blooms
#haiku

late season
each butterfly we see
with weathered wings
#haiku

under cover
of low hung orange boughs
house for wren(t)
#haiku

lovers quarrel
the chatter breezes through
eucalyptus leaves
#haiku