Category Archives: wildlife

Sparrow [Haiku]

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a sparrow 
stops in mid-peck
to eyeball me

DAILY PHOTO: Monkey Portraits, Bali

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Contemplating Chains [Haiku]

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baby monkey
seems to contemplate chains,
or i anthropomorphize?

Dove Raid [Haiku]

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two doves dine
on temple offerings,
untroubled by smoke

Russet Percher [Haiku]

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the russet percher:
its look says "fast flyer," but 
its name says "good sitter"

Monkey Forest [Free Verse]

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in the monkey forest,
i think of 
Sun Wukong & Hanuman
as a macaque 
steals my sunglasses

Banana Leaf Snail [Haiku]

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a snail hangs
on a banana leaf,
effortlessly

Butterfly Fickle [Haiku]

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a butterfly lands;
unmoved by wind or leaf sway,
but point a camera…

Beetles of the Corn [Haiku]

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cornstalk beetle 
bigger around than the stalk:
bad at hide-n-seek

Dragonfly on Lotus [Haiku]

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a dragonfly lands
on a lotus seed head
without making sway