Yours

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” are not mine.

your breast against my arm . . .

      the tadpole’s wiggle

in my drying palm

             (written 2000/2001, published 2002)

your call

at midnight—

stillborn

             (written 2008, published 2016)

your eyes exclaiming

the belly blue

of a fence lizard

             (written 2014, published 2022; compare with “your moist eyes— / the kind of blue / on a lizard’s belly,” written in 2013)

your hand in mine—

the fullness

of tonight’s sky

             (written 2011, published 2022; written the same day as the next poem, but published eleven years later)

your hand in mine . . .

the sky so full

of stars

             (written 2011, published 2011; written the same day as the preceding poem)

your moist eyes—

the kind of blue

on a lizard’s belly

             (written 2013, published 2021; compare with “your eyes exclaiming / the belly blue / of a fence lizard,” written in 2014)

your raised eyebrow—

I change the channel

back

             (written 2011, published 2016)

your laughter

       under the willow

makes it summer

             (written 1997, published 1998)