November

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” all occur in the eleventh month.

November afternoon—

a dried pea’s long shadow

on the kitchen linoleum

             (written 1995, published 1998)

November afternoon—

        blush

on the jogger’s legs

             (written 2000, published 2004)

November fog—

a passing shinkansen

pressurizes our cabin

             (written 2013, published 2021; see “Tokyo to Kamakura” sequence)

November gloom—

the fireworks stand

wet with rain

             (written 2011, published 2021)