blue-sky chilly breeze
accentuates bare branches
with starling-shaped leaves
Haiku Journal
Visibility
i can see my breath
iced fog in front of my face
makes bare scenes snowy
Chillin’
winter morning chills
still, birds gather by water
and take the cold plunge
January breeze
winter morning birds
weave song through misty gray clouds
leaves add harmony
Flyby
yellow butterfly —
did your wisp fluttering wings
make this springtime breeze?
Brisk breezes
weathered winter leaves
skip and tumble down the road
racing towards the spring
Ruffled feathers
serene spring morning
calm but for two birds brawling
uh — that’s not fighting
Phases of morning
sky becomes full dawn
towhees call out to half moon
at quarter till sun
Stragglers
bird alights on branch
mottled-lit golden leaves fall
drifting like feathers
Desert winter storm
tiny icy hail
falls slantwise through streaming sun
melting to rainbow
Icy gaze
owls fierce in summer
are fiercer yet in winter —
it’s mating season
Idling
lizard of leisure
idler in sun — bird shadow
how quickly he moves
Between
overcast spring day
musing under olive tree
on top of the world