Summer Rain

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” are all dripping with warm rain.

summer rain at the school window       paper stacked for recycling

             (written 1995, published 2005)

summer rain—

I verb my intellectualization

over nouns

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

summer rain—

the cicada’s shell

softens in deep grass

             (written 2000, published 2001; for Garry Gay’s father, who died in June 2000)

summer rain

       the mechanic pockets

my spare tire valve cap

             (written 2002, published 2008)