Haiku Lessons

First published in Bacopa Literary Review 2019, pages 132–133. The same issue also includes the sequences “Still I Go” and “Shēngxiào.” Originally written in April of 2013, on the road between Mt. Vernon and Everett, Washington. See also “Three Haiku Sequences,” with my commentary on this sequence that also appeared as a guest posting on 15 January 2020 on the Bacopa Literary Review Editors’ Blog.



rainy season—

an adjective noun

prepositions the noun



midday heat—

I verb the noun

to verb my noun



empty café—

another noun

verbing the noun



the noun on our nouns

gerunding when we verb—

winter solstice



yard sale—

noun enough now

to verb my noun



equinox—

the noun of nouns

under the noun



winter night—

fragment with verb

participles a noun



morning haze—

the adverb verbs

all of my nouns



summer rain—

I verb my intellectualization

over nouns



army fatigues . . .

she verbs me my noun

under the metaphor



noun after noun after noun—

church bells

verb article noun



cliché—

juxtaposition

surreal noun



nature image—

my thought about it

keeps on verbing