G Miscellany

The following miscellaneous “Haiku from Index Cards” all start with the letter G.

game delay—

a maple spinner

in my daughter’s hand

             (written 2015, published 2017)

garden patch—

my daughter talking

to her seedlings

             (written 2013, published 2021)

garden supply store . . .

      each sundial

      tells a different time

             (written 1999, published 2007)

gathering crowd—

the egg not frying

on the small-town sidewalk

             (written 2003, published 2020)

gently

down the stream

my paddle

             (written 2008, published 2010)

ghost story

circling the campfire

rumours of an owl

             (written 2013, published 2024)

going-out-of-business sign

freshly painted

             (written 1992, published 1993; see “One by One” linked verse)

gone

       with the oak

our childhood initials

             (written 1993, published 2003)

gone

     with the wind

          the red toupee

             (written 1992, published 1993; see “One by One” linked verse)

granddad’s secateurs

out of their leather pouch—

autumn’s first chill

             (written 1995, published 2004)

graupel in the shadows—

the schoolyard tetherball

twists in the wind

             (written 2013, published 2016; see “From Off the Beaten Track: A Year in Haiku”)

green flash—

if I fell in love,

would you catch me?

             (written 2012, published 2012)

grey autumn sky—

the end of the epitaph

etched deeper

             (written 1991, published 2000)

gridlock—

a man in an ambulance

bows his head

             (written 2011, published 2016)

gull at a city puddle flies off with my reflection

             (written 1997, published 2020)

gunshot recordings

echo over the vineyard . . .

a grackle’s stained beak

             (written 1992, published 1993)

gusting autumn wind—

the telephone ringing

in the burning house

             (written 1992, published 1995; in 1995 I also wrote “in the burning house / the telephone / rings once,” published in 1998)