Reverie

My shadow points north
where velveteen moss hangs
from gnarled oak--longing
for osage and dogwood
my father beside me
on a bale of hay, smoking
in the cool barn, now
where only swallows nest—
the rails no longer humming


leh

high desert rush

blood flows faster
driving into Vegas

marquee buzz
highway country

recognized an Angel  

sitting on the curb
displaced   Chi
soul   life force
 
alternate version   trapped
in a parallel universe
separated by a veil
dividing   into infinite selves
 
high desert  gateway
to the multiverse


text & photo by leh

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The Birthday

Memories trespass

into her thoughts

with the unexpected word

the intrusive image…

CNN reporting live from Baghdad

where there is a sense of liberation

the first wave of bombings

absolutely stunning to see.
 

            …taking her back to D-day 1944

            her 24^th birthday

            the beaches of Normandy

            stained red with the blood

            of boys she grew up with.

On the television screen

an ancient city disintegrates

into an expanding mushroom cloud

against a ghostly-green night-scope sky.

            Of course, collateral damage

            is to be expected

            when liberating people.

A lone birthday card lies before her, unopened.


text & photo by leh

Haiku IX

Phobos and Deimos
draw the chariot of Mars,
our rubicund sire




leh (web photo)

Haiku I

midsummer still-life
night bird chatters until dawn
crow caws good morning





text & photo by leh

Haiku IV

upon bare oak branch
bard shape-shifts into eagle
folds wings around hawk

 

 

 text & photo by leh

Haiku VI

friends and lovers, we
two comets in winter's sky
seeking our way home


text by leh (web photo)

Haiku II

leaving the dreamtime
sunrise fragments through mesquite
I reach out for you


text & photo by leh

Haiku V

moon separates clouds
two souls merge on their journey

in flight with no net

 

text by leh; photo by eng

Haiku III

high desert wind song
beetle scampering across
zigzagged, sunbaked clay




text & photo by leh