stone stacks line the trail:
a thousand hikers suppress
the urge to kick.
Agent of Entropy [Senryū]
2

a dead tree
stands above the living;
it didn’t pace itself.

sapling grows in boulder,
splitting it in twain;
paper does beat rock.

Tree that sits mid-stream
is not your average tree.
Stillness amid flow?

grazing deer
pays hikers no heed:
too noisy for threat.