wood – Selected haiku

31 May 2021 – II

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

is pouring stain from

the can a good idea?

alas, it is not

found a stick I want-

-ed to make into a staff,

but it was too wet

I want to turn a

stump into an end table…

still seeking my stump

broke dad’s sander
while isolating with parents
(it’s fine, he fixed it)

finished making a
footstool last month. should have used
thinner hairpin legs.

before I return
home, borrowing dad’s router
for lithograph frames

seizing this warm day:
applying polyure-
-thane in my parents’ garage

chevron halves meet off
center, a choice, but it looks
unintentional