P Miscellany

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

pale moonlight—

a snow-covered swing

twists in the wind

             (written 1993, published 1994)

paper route finished—

I suck on an icicle

all the way home

             (written 1998, published 2000)

partly cloudy . . .

the tennis match

goes back and forth

             (written 2013, published 2022)

passing cloud—

the bush wren tips

to water in a hoofprint

             (written 1997, published 2001)

pea-soup fog—

your lighthouse keychain

lighting the roadmap

             (written 2010, published 2017)

peppered with crows the pumpkin patch

             (written 2022, published 2022)

picnic in the park—

you don my crown

of daisies

             (written 2015, published 2023)

placing my own stone

onto the cabin-site’s cairn—

whippoorwill calling

             (written 2007, published 2021; see “For Henry” sequence)

planetary alignment—

another basket of zucchini

in the breakroom

             (written 2015, published 2022)

planet Valtec—

every snowflake

the same

             (written 2008, published 2008)

plastic chairs

overturned on the table

a swirl of snow

             (written 1996, published 1998)

playing and falling

the children

the snow

             (written 1992, published 2016)

Pleiades at dawn—

nod of a passing jogger

quickens my pace

             (written 2005, published 2006)

plum blossoms

gather at the curbside . . .

my missed bus

             (written 2003, published 2016)

ponderosa grove—

each of the campers

testing the hammock

             (written 1994, published 2002)

poorly tuned radio—

a head nods

in the nursing home lounge

             (written 2003, published 2007)

Portage and Main—

the wind whipping snow

after my missed bus

             (written 2017, published 2018; see “Winnipeg Wind” rengay)

poster in front

of the failed bank—

“Jesus saves”

             (written 1991, published 1993)

potatoes eyeing me eyeing potatoes

             (written 1997, published 1998; see “Watching Haiku People” on my Deja-ku Diary blog)

pressing the cold shaver

      to my face—

the motor changes pitch

             (written 1991, published 1994; see “From Raku Teapot Haiku”)

printerrupt

             (written 2021, published 2021; see “Pwoermds”)

protest march—

a trail of moonlit ants

under the barricade

             (written 1992, published 2022: see “A Trumpeter Swan” renku)

pull of the leash—

the smell of rhubarb

in a gentle rain

             (written 1997, published 1999)

pulsing

in the wiper’s blade

the bee’s abdomen

             (written 1993, published 1998)

pumpkin weigh-in . . .

the judge’s motion

to lift off hands

             (written 2001, published 2015; see “Once Upon a Time,” from Fire in the Treetops anthology)