Fading Sunset

May the following “Haiku from Index Cards” not fade away.

fading sunset—

all the Skytree visitors

on the Fuji-san side

             (written 2013, published 2021; see “Tokyo to Kamakura” sequence)

fading sunset—

a quail track disappears

under the hedge

             (written 2003, published 2003)

fading sunset—

barn swallows perch

on the sagging hayrack

             (written 1994, published 1998; for Marje A. Dyck of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; see my introduction to her book, Still Blue Water)

fading sunset—

      icicles

on a wasp nest

             (written 1992, published 1996)

fading sunset—

still the shine

on high-tension wires

             (written 1994, published 2008)

fading sunset—

the silhouette

of the snowshoe hare

             (written 1993, published 1994; see “Silhouettes” haibun)