April 23rd 2019

still
    not a single leaf—the old tree's crow   
        instead

113: April 23rd 2019 | bottlecap

April 22nd 2019

even
    on a cloudy day, the sunny
        daffodils
     

112: April 22nd 2019 | bottlecap

shaken
    from the limbs of a birch—the morning's   
        starlight

111: April 21st 2019 | bottlecap

all
    night April's Milky Way over- 
        flows
    
      
110: April 20th 2019 | bottlecap

About Haiku
The block print above originally celebrated the discovery of gravity waves. The two swallows are the two black holes and the waves they created.

wild
    turkeys cross the road in spring's slimming 
        sun

109: April 19th 2019 | bottlecap

here
    and there this time of year—snow, then
        frogs

108: April 18th 2019 | bottlecap

after
    the rains—starlight floods the evening's
        pools

107: April 17th 2019 | bottlecap

black
    as floodwaters—birds in spring's leafless
        trees
 
106: April 16th 2019 | bottlecap

Between a day near 70 degrees, a winter’s worth of snow still melting, and heavy rains during the night, much of Vermont saw flooding. Our own brook behind the house was as high as I’ve seen it since Hurricane Irene, though even that remained half the hurricane’s flood. I spent the day in Burlington, Vermont. The seagulls were out and perched on top of lampposts, their cries as gray as the sky. There was a flock of blackbirds or grackles, perhaps, that filled a distant tree like drops of ink, flew off, made designs in the sky, then returned to the tree.

moon
    over the withered fields—the coywolf's cry
        unanswered

     

105: April 15th 2019 | bottlecap

so
    many winter's nights lost in the river's melt-
        waters
     
     

104: April 14th 2019 | bottlecap