grass-rattle, plop!
grass-rattle, plop! -- repeats...
at last, I see a frog.
Frogs Heard, Not Seen [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: animals
Camouflage, Not! [Haiku]
a squirrel chitters;
its black body against
the ash gray tree.
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Garden Carp [Haiku]
saffron-colored carp
mill about the garden pond.
a cat watches...
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Cat Dandy [Kyōka]
cat on a porch rail
preens between naps
to look good
for the twenty waking
minutes of its day.
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“A narrow Fellow in the Grass” (1096) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides --
You may have met him? Did you not
His notice instant is --
The Grass divides as with a Comb,
A spotted Shaft is seen,
And then it closes at your Feet
And opens further on --
He likes a Boggy Acre --
A Floor too cool for Corn --
But when a Boy and Barefoot
I more than once at Noon
Have passed I thought a Whip Lash
Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure it
It wrinkled And was gone --
Several of Nature's People
I know, and they know me
I feel for them a transport
Of Cordiality
But never met this Fellow
Attended or alone
Without at tighter Breathing
And Zero at the Bone.
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Marching Macaques [Haiku]
macaques on the march:
lockstep / shoulder-to-shoulder;
a crash in the trees.
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Dramatic Entrance [Haiku]
an egret flares
to a dramatic landing
in a sunny grass patch.
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Heron [Haiku]
Koi Cluster [Haiku]
the koi cluster
at one end of the pond:
anticipating mana.
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Cormorant Stitching [Haiku]
a cormorant weaves
into and over water:
no trace but ripples.
