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chicory blue

25 Saturday Jun 2022

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deep overcast-
chicory blue
out of concrete rubble

Modern Haiku vol. XXII, no. 3 Fall 1991

whimsy

22 Wednesday Jun 2022

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the formal garden-
a cabbage butterfly’s
whimsy



Modern Haiku vol. XXIV, no..2 Summer, 1993

on end

21 Tuesday Jun 2022

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she’s waited up…
to have some last words
with me


a solemn part
another baby
babbles



the plumber
kneeling in our tub
– talking to himself


staff meeting-
he stands his pen
on end



our son spills his milk –
not an iota
of reaction from him



sentinel pine-
roots running every which way
showered in moonlight



back to its hole-
the woodchuck shot through
its hindquarters



Modern Haiku vol. XXIX no. 1 Winter-Spring, 1998

in the middle

17 Friday Jun 2022

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You can sit on a lawn or in a field, or forest or by a stream; almost anyplace
and just sit there sensing whatever. The longer you sit the better for settling
out the business of the mind and becoming open to the myriad senses of
sound, sight, smell and the way all manner of life is right there to discover…


page by page…
she knows on each one
where Waldo is


Frogpond v. XXIV no.3 2001

in the woods

16 Thursday Jun 2022

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In the Woods

In 1962 when I was eleven I fancied myself to be a Last of the Mohicans, Huckleberry Finn, outback wilderness child, and had chosen the name “Wonapsa” to inspire and fulfill the fantasies I played out in the woods and gorges behind our house. The woods contained the world I loved, both real and imaginary. I would spy on rabbits, chipmunks, and woodpeckers. Sometimes I would sit as still as I could to see what being a ghost was all about. I laid on the ground, smelling the dirt and embracing a patch of earth just my size. I would climb trees listening to the wind sigh in the boughs and learn the creak that comes from deep in trees. The woods were filled with secrets I wanted to know.

sun after rain–
the garter snake fresh
from its skin

In the spring it was momentous to find mayapples and hepaticas and know new life arises from the litter and wreckage of winters’ leaving. One day while scampering up and down steep slopes in random search for tiny skulls, feathers, fossils, or a special perch to sit awhile, I peeked over a ridge top to see a man and a woman lying out on a ledge a way below me. What they were doing I had roughly heard about but never seen. The trees between me and them were few but a bit of guilt kept me from a steady stare. I became aware of the unlikeliness of what I was witnessing and felt an exhilaration of discovery. To see their flesh while they kept some clothes on filled me with curiosity. I do not re- member a distinct conclusion, my memory choosing to focus on the unison of their movements.

That night my heart and mind recreated it all over and over. What images I had seen. How purely animal and natural they were. How unexpected and free a view I had.

Years go by and that ledge is still there. My walks in the woods these days sometimes pass that place. I always look a little and remember. I’ve never seen anyone else there.

barren woods–
a clump of wild onion
scents the air

American Haibun & Haiga Volume 1

nature’s call

04 Saturday Jun 2022

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side by side
answering nature’s call
man and dog


Modern Haiku vol. XXXII, no. 3 Fall , 2001

whimsy

03 Friday Jun 2022

Posted by Tom Clausen in butterflies, haiku, Modern Haiku, Published Poems, summer

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the formal garden-
a cabbage butterfly’s
whimsy


Modern Haiku vol. XXIV, no.2 Summer, 1993

lilacs

25 Wednesday May 2022

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heavy rain-
lilac blooms smush
against the window


Modern Haiku 25:2 (summer 1994), 18

letting her

24 Tuesday May 2022

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letting her
walk all over me
ladybug


bottle rockets 4:2 ( #8 spring-summer 2003)

brink of a breeze…

17 Sunday Oct 2021

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milkweed seeds
on the brink
of a breeze…
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