Downpour [Haiku]

drying cormorant
folds up its wings, resigned
to grounding by rain.

Cormorant Rules [Haiku]

a cormorant
waits a half-hour after
swimming to fly.

Cormorant Patience [Kyōka]

the cormorant,
glistening & dripping,
must air dry
before it’s a bird again;
humans cramp in the pool.

Cormorant Stitching [Haiku]

a cormorant weaves
into and over water:
no trace but ripples.