Through

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” get from here to there.

through blacked snow the lawn again

             (written 2014, published 2023; see “Now” rengay)

through the birches

      a zig-zag trail

            holds a dragonfly

             (written 1990, published 1990)

through the fair

      the balloonman

            and his children

             (written 1993, published 2003)

through the open window

a seed blows in

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

through the spinnaker’s shadow,

the rush of sea

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