Haikumuse | Winter 2008

by Madeleine Findlay

salt marsh
the morning after the thaw
full of reflections

riverbed frozen
all the rocks and boulders
stand out together

boots fit loosely
into the new, fresh tracks
snow drift

through bare woods
the frozen stream threads its way
glistening

in the cold rain
hunched over the mud flat
stately heron

The Stone Zoo
such overall restlessness
leaves into mud

by Tom D'Evelyn

Reading Bashō
snow fills the room
with all available light

Line of geese
in tatters regroups
over the hill

A snow-capped pile
a gull circles, lands on it
and shits

A paper crown
in the snowbank
New Years Day

It whispers by,
the Piscataqua,
this snowy morning

Everybody’s here
outside it’s all black ice
and a wolf’s moon

An empty matchbook
in a dry place
snow storm

Intermission
everything’s equal
in the snow

Winter glare
the surface of the pond
broken by a bufflehead

In the silence
the tingle of touch
winter fly

No-minded
I watch silent crows
fly through the snow

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