My Oh My

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” all start with “my.”

my blue bathrobe

worn at the hook spot—

New Year’s Day

             (written 2015, published 2022)

my hand curves

     to fit your breast . . .

the windowsill, snow-laden

             (written 1993, published 1995)

my hand on your thigh . . .

from the window seat

the curve of the earth

             (written 1990, published 1999)

my lover’s call . . .

the cord wrapped

around my finger

             (written 1993, published 1995; such dated technology!)

my neighbour’s bicycle

locked to the fence—

drifting plum blossoms

             (written 2002, published 2003)

my sheets in the laundry

in case you might

stay over tonight

             (written 1993, published 1998)

my soda quieting—

the exchange student photographs

her airline dinner

             (written 1996/2000, published 2001)

my supper alone . . .

what is it about the moon

that feels so lonely?

             (written 2020, published 2020)

my wife makes

a mountain of them

molehills on the lawn

             (written 2011, published 2021)

my window opens

   a hundred frogs

         sing to the moon

             (date written unrecorded, but prior to April 1988, published 1988; this was my first-ever published haiku, not counting school publications)