Haiku of the Day: Pear petal shower
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Pear petal shower
wind blows them across my path.
Cares washed with delight.
Pear petal shower
wind blows them across my path.
Cares washed with delight.
Envy green mustang,
blonde driver, leopard-spot coat.
I feel camoflauged.
Windshield wipers bow,
playing a strange violin.
Rain improvises.
After days of storms
the high clouds have one last dance:
ring around the sun.
Seagull flotilla
becalmed on a still green lake
flash white wings, soar free
I’m not sure in what year i wrote this. 2003? 2004?
New palm fronds unfold
like relentless ideas –
age, drop to the ground .
In fog I refuse
the fast straight road but prefer
the curved road I know.
The high morning sun
bleaches the fog blanket white –
Laundress to the hills .
Caution… Accident on… Bridge
A temporary neighborhood with blocks of auto apartments under a blue sky threatened by clouds above San Francisco.
LINUX is from Michigan.
A past student with parking stickers obscuring the view out his rear window.
Croatia! on the frame holding his license plate explains the red and blue flag hanging from his rearview mirror. Bright blue Dodge Neon.
Death in a blue convertable Cadillac. Pale guy with dark hair on the cell phone. Blonde gal moussed hair. Fish with vampire inscribed within surround a license plate frame with a message that death comes to all — roll bar. WRYTH personalized plate.
KOZERA personalized plate like a decorious mailbox in front of the stately burgundy Soverign Jaguar. Bottle blonde driver next to the balding husband. Bottle blonde daughter in back listens to headphones while a bright yellow smily face air freshener hangs from the rear view mirror. Tan interior.
Black Ford Explorer tinted windows and sun roof, drifting piano and cool jazz descend.
Orange Toyata Tercel with eagle feather hanging from rear view mirror & Free Tibet bumper sticker.
White Dodge Neo blares death metal with windows wide for smokers and black fuzzy dice.
White Plymouth with vintage lines
parked downhill on Pershing Drive.
The dew on the rear window
kaleidoscopes the colors
of the Mexican blanket,
while bumper stickers proclaim:
(with fish) “Life is short, pray hard,”
“Thank God I am Forgiven.”
The turquoise interior
glows like a semi-precious
stone set in the Signet’s ring
of sun-lit chrome and red trim.