Haiku XIII

Great Blue stands at shore
waiting for aquatic prey
stoic persistence

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Haiku XII

spring forth golden fields
California poppies bloom
bees drink sweet nectar

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Haiku XI

azure falls cascade
over gilded crimson koi
lilies reflected


text & photo by leh

Haiku X

half moon aqua sea
ice plant crawling over cliff
coast range silhouette



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Late Rain

Red and Yellow flash
Swirl, blinds
Bleeds into my senses.
 
A voice on the phone
Said this is the spot
Just past the bend
In the road.
The damp road.
The slippery road.
 
Where’s my son?
My baby boy…
Two weeks from sixteen.

 

Red, now, only Red
(Swirls, blinds
Bleeds into my memory)
On the road.
The damp road.
The skid-marked road.


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Red Legs and Leather

Beautiful bad girl
plugged-in
to fringe

fatal attraction
amplified
in the red zone

carpé noctem
cards dealt
by a wicked messenger

institutionalized
inexcusably
transformed

 

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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