K Miscellany

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

karaoke night—

the stage lights up

for the janitor

             (written 2012, published 2016; also made into a haiga by Ron C. Moss) 

keeping them for a day—

the broken pieces

of the heirloom bowl

             (written 2006, published 2007)

kelp swelling

in and out

I become the ocean

             (written 2018, published 2019; for Leonard Cohen; see “Memorial Haiku”)

kendo in the courtyard the sky in ruins

             (written 2015, published 2023)

kettling hawks

with lost shadows—

rising trail dust

             (written 2015, published 2023)

kite weather—

the choice to turn

left or right

             (written 2003, published 2018)

kneeling at the gravestone

       veins in this leaf

       in my hand

             (written 1993, published 2002)

knocked from its tin

a fresh loaf, steaming

             (written 1990, published 1993; see “A Gnat in Amber” renku)