Category Archives: insect

Wasps [Haiku]

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a hive of wasps,
 each one frenetic:
  do they never rest?

Snail & Centipede [Haiku]

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in the contours
 of a stone-relief Ganesh:
  snail & centipedes.

Evening Brown #2 [Haiku]

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at dusk,
 the long-still Evening Brown
  flutters off.

Evening Brown [Haiku]

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this Evening Brown 
 is well-named; it’s sluggish 
  in the morning.

Red Dragonfly [Haiku]

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still red dragonfly:
 has the autumn gotten
  too cold for you?

Autumn Crickets [Haiku]

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distant cricket chirps:
 from the next hill, I wonder?
  now, one at my feet.

Startle Response [Haiku]

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even in death
 the scorpion can evoke
  momentary fear.

Big Red Bug [Haiku]

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the big red bug
 attracts attention 
  it doesn’t want.

Bent Blade [Haiku]

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a skipper sits on
 a bent grass blade; then leaves.
  the blade stays bent.

Winged Deception [Haiku]

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the butterfly
 that i’d thought dead
  just fluttered off.