Wet

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” are all wet.

wet beach sand—

a sandpiper’s song

of footprints

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

wet beach stones

gathered in my palm—

a fading rainbow

             (written 2011, published 2013)

wet infield—

two stray cats

find each other

             (written 1995, published 2022)

wet kitchen sink—

the leftover stem

from a cut orchid

             (written 2013, published 2017)

wet sand

between the robot’s toes—

the setting suns

             (written 2008, published 2008)

wet with paint

from the white pickets

our new retriever

             (written 2011, published 2017)