spring – Selected haiku

13 April 2022

toads, looking for love / in all the right places: near / a lake with more toads

toads, lacking Tinder
or text messages, croak their
inquiries: “u up?”

Meyer lemon tree
produced piquant bud, perhaps 
an atom of juice

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

seen in twenty eight-
-teen: a rather large mushroom.
I did not eat it.

behold the bluewings,

impatiens, begonias

on our balcony

young goose family
surveys artificial
lake that they call home

inhaled all the grass

pollen while identify-

-ing. I’m allergic.

squirrel asking all
other sciuridae in
the cluster: “you up?”

mating call

stayed away from these

boats to avoid exposure

to BOATVID-19