outdoors – Selected haiku

6 September 2021

this Baja Blast Freeze
was thawed by summer heat and 
the warmth of friendship

longer than an oak 
leaf, slug full of abundant
summer bugs seeks more

dog sniffs late summer
flowers, prey, and rivals in 
cool air after storm

neighbor, nude and fur-
-ry and rain-wet, nuzzles my 
knee with their whole face

slug considered on-
trend cicada dinner when
Brood X emerged, died

on path near Lake Anne 
Plaza, doll counts leaves and hours 
without their person

admiring Robert
Simon: an ally sitting
tall, beyond the grave

two chairs becoming
one. are they in love or in
the Voltron fandom?

did I ask my dad

to photograph me in tree

pose on a log? yes.

neighbor let us take

log pieces, gift from them and

storm that knock’d down tree