Abandoned

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” share a common subject that is also each poem’s first word.

abandoned country diner—

      the ring left behind

            by a coffee cup

             (written 1991, published 1998)

abandoned farmhouse—

     moon in the pane

          left unbroken

             (written 1991, published 2009)

abandoned service station—

long-ago gas prices

still posted

             (written 1992, published 2004)

abandoned quarry—

let me count the ways

we argue

             (written 2015, published 2019)