4 September 2023 (pond-side)

pond-side bench

conjoined dragonflies

join me

23 March 2023 (rain)

female rain

nuthatches courting

on a phone pole

12 September 2020 (Wild Graces)

Yesterday’s post is a day late, because I was attending the (outdoor) haiku gathering at Wild Graces in NH.

linked dragonflies

fly among haiku poets

shifting clouds

19 May 2020 (sparrows)

domestic issues

a pair of song sparrows

mates in my yard

February 15: Ripped from the headlines

The Seattle Aquarium has made the public display of mating octopuses a very popular annual Valentine's Day event. This year, however, the spectacle was cancelled because they couldn't find a female big enough to hold her own against their 70-lb. male octopus, Kong. Giant Pacific Octopuses are normally kept separated in aquariums (and live predominately solitary lives in the wild), because they not uncommonly kill and eat one another. Clearly the aquarium did not want to promote an event in which the hapless female might experience love and death in such short order, in full view of the soft-hearted public.

 

Today's haiku was an actual online headline: found poetry at its best.

 

Octopus mating event

cancelled due to

cannibalism concerns.

Posted with Blogsy

June 6: Craneflies

Came home the other night to find two craneflies mating on the well-lit front door, connected end to end.

Where one cranefly ends,
another begins.
Such perfect union.