4 November 2024 (a new no hunting sign)

a new no hunting sign

at the old pasture’s edge

winterberries

17 December 2023 (winter dawn)

winter dawn

a black-and-white cat

prowls the lawn’s edge

15 November 2022 (vase)

a glass vase

filled with grouse feathers

killing frost

3 November 2022 (Orion)

all of Orion . . .

he leaves before dawn

for his hunting trip

10 January 2022 (tracks)

tracks in snow . . .

the lives

after this one

2 November 2021 (frost)

Twelve years ago yesterday I began this blog! I didn’t know what I was doing for several years, and I took occasional breaks from the “daily” thing, but the important thing to me was that I was writing regularly, at a time in my life when a stressful job was sapping my time and energy, especially my creative energy. At this point, my daily practice of haiku has become necessary to my well-being. And, as is often said, a haiku is essentially a collaboration between the writer and the reader—so thank you for accompanying me along the way and completing the circle.

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dawn moon . . .

frost coats the nail heads

in the deer stand

28 October 2021 (snow)

snow in the mountains . . .

his hunting knife

newly sharpened

20 November 2020 (hike)

November hike

gauging the distances

of gunfire

7 October 2020 (acorns)

grouse season

the sharp reports

of falling acorns

February 27: Good view

ladder to a deer stand

in the big lone pine

deer tracks in mud below

January 10: Cooper's Hawk, Main St., Rockland

Graceful spray of birds--

hawk chases a pigeon flock

over downtown roofs.

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