N Miscellany

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

naked street light

   my shadow walks faster

         than my feet

             (written 1991, published 1993)

napkins unfolded—

we keep passing

the green bean casserole

             (written 2017, published 2017; see “Giving Thanks” rengay)

nature image—

my thought about it

keeps on verbing

             (written 2013, published 2019; see “Haiku Lessons” sequence)

nearly sunset—

the cliffside rocks

still warm between us

             (written 2022, published 2023)

near the end

of her spooky story

her raised eyebrow

             (written 2001, published 2022)

newly painted trellis—

the agent arrives

to lift out the Sold sign

             (written 2002, published 2020; see “Star Wheel” sequence)

new pond—

a tadpole

breaks the surface

             (written 1991, published 1995; my attempt at updating Bashō)

#new #pond

the #frog #jumps in

#sound of #water

             (written 2015, published 2022; my attempt to really update Bashō)

noisy downspout—

the alluvial fan

of small autumn leaves

             (written 2015, published 2022)

no, I tell myself,

it’s not really

a grey hair

             (written 2011, published 2012; see “Stages 1” tan-renga)

noon haze—

an aspen leaf

                 waving

             (date written unrecorded, but prior to September 1989, published 1990;

             a note on this card says it was “The first card written in this new record-keeping system! —12 Jan 90”)

noon rain

    syncopating

        church bells

             (written 1990, published 1994; see “moonrain” sequence)

northern lights—

    snow sifts

through the bird feeder

             (written 1994, published 1997; see “Haiku Christmas Cards”)

not moving

the scarecrows

         the crows

             (written 1990, published 1992)

not seeing the green wheat

till that one

red barn

             (written 2003, published 2015; a parody of Anita Virgil’s “not seeing / the room is white / until that red apple”; see “Parodies, Homages, and Allusions”)

not so cold

when you take my hand

the seaside cave

             (written 2011, published 2017)

not yet

in my spelling checker

coronavirus

             (written 2020, published 2020)

now and then

through the carousel

low summer moon

             (written 2002, published 2002)

no words between us—

a moonbow

over the waterfall

             (written 2014, published 2023)

nude beach—

my gesture reflected

in her sunglasses

             (written 2000, published 2004)

nude beach—

the crowd around

the dead whale

             (written 2000, published 2000/2007; see “From Shiki Haikusphere,” with Japanese translation)

nursing home lounge—

a child’s puzzle

left unfinished

             (written 1996, published 1998; see “From Global Haiku”)