Spring Thaw

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” are all emerging from winter.

spring thaw

a pine cone

on the snow

             (date written unrecorded, but 1989 or earlier, published 1993)

spring thaw . . .

out of the snowdrift

the marble sundial

             (written 1992, published 1993)

spring thaw—

the dirt where dad

would have planted seeds

             (written 2014, published 2021)

spring thaw—

the lowest willow twigs

sweep the brown snow

             (written 1991, published 1993)

spring thaw—

the old scarecrow

a little taller

             (written 2001, published 2003; see “Brocade of Leaves”)