rachelbirds

June 18, 2013, 6:13 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: cousins, game, haiku, Rummikub

Playing Rummikub
obsessively with cousins
every evening.

June 17, 2013, 7:53 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: dog walking, haiku, night sky, stars

Nighttime dog walking—
a billion stars overhead
surround half a moon.

June 16, 2013, 7:45 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: Bloomsday, Father's Day, haiku, lollygagging

I’m lollygagging –
sitting in bed hearing the
robins “cheeriup.”

June 15, 2013, 8:17 am
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: barbecue chicken, Freeville, haiku

Men stand at the grill
slathering naked chickens
with church secret sauce.

June 14, 2013, 7:08 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: haiku, red fox

Red fox crossed the path
but the tail was not white-tipped.
Maybe I dreamt this?

June 13, 2013, 7:49 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: haiku, howling beagle

Beagle howls next door
ev’ry time his person leaves.
Such a mournful sound.

June 12, 2013, 6:58 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: cottontail, haiku, swamp walk

On morning’s swamp walk
a cottontail led us down
the old railroad bed.

June 11, 2013, 8:16 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: dog, haiku, Skeeter

Dog’s head on my feet—
he wants me to sit tight and
rise only for walks.

June 10, 2013, 8:49 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: haiku, mowing the lawn, rain

Why, oh why, didn’t
I finish mowing the back lawn?
Here comes the deluge.

June 9, 2013, 12:29 pm
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: cosmos, garden, haiku, sunflowers

The sunflowers and
cosmos are growing out back.
Anticipation.

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