Misty

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” begin with mist, and sometimes end there too.

mist

abducted child

              missed

             (written 1990, published 1990; I also wondered if this poem should have been “missed / abducted child / mist”)

mist rising

on autumn colours—

physical therapy day

             (written 2019, published 2021)

mist thinning

around the country mailbox

—its flag up

             (written 2000, published 2007)

misty cedars—

a memory of stamps

on approval

             (written 2022, published 2023)

misty field—

starlings scatter

at the tractor’s backfire

             (written 1997, published 1998; see “Breath Clouds” rengay)

misty morning—

a hummingbird alights

on the bonsai pine

             (written 1997, published 2004)

misty rain—

that song you liked

fading off the radio

             (written 2013, published 2018)